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Publication #FCS8576

Healthy Living for Elders: Diabetes Resources1

Linda B. Bobroff and Paulina Wittkowsky2

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For information on diabetes, or to be referred to a diabetes health professional or a dietitian in your area, contact any of the following sources.

  • American Diabetes Association

1-800 DIABETES
Attn: National Call Center
1701 N. Beauregard St.
Alexandria, VA 22311
www.diabetes.org

  • Florida Offices of the American Diabetes Association:

Jacksonville
1-888-DIABETES
(904) 730-7200
Baymeadows Rd., Suite 10
Jacksonville, FL 32256

Miami
1-305-477-8999
NW 53rd St., Suite A-101
Miami, FL 33166

Maitland
1-407-660-1926
Lake Destiny Rd., Suite 415
Maitland, FL 32751

  • Florida Dept. of Elder Affairs

1-800-96ELDER or 1-800-963-5337

  • Area Agencies on Aging

You can find the number for your area office in the white pages of the phone book.

County Extension Offices

You can find the number for your local Extension office in the blue pages of the phone book. Look under Cooperative Extension Service.

  • The American Dietetic Association

1-800-366-1655 (nutrition information line)
120 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000
Chicago, IL PostalCode60606-6995

Services available in Spanish

Footnotes

1. This document is FCS8576, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, placeCityGainesville, FL 32611. First published: March 2000. Revised: February 2006. Please visit the EDIS Website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu

2. Linda B. Bobroff, professor, Foods and Nutrition, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Leaflet design by Paulina Wittkowsky, MS, RD, formerly with the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL32611.

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