Life! Program
Overview
Resources
Updates
Overview
This is a new Victorian evidence based type 2 diabetes prevention program.
It involves a risk assessment tool called diabetes risk test. The Life! Program also includes a lifestyle behaviour change course of six group session for 90 minutes, over a period of eight months.
People can be referred to a course by a general practitioner if the patient has completed a diabetes risk test and scored 15 or more, is over 50 years of age and does not have diabetes.
Getting your patients into Life! will be a simple three step process:
1. Completion of patient risk test by GP, practice nurse or patient.
2. Score and eligibility confirmed by GP.
3. Referral to Life! behaviour change intervention program.
For general information on the Life! program, please contact Anna Wood, at NDGP on Tel. 8480 4604.
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Resources
Diabetes prevention programs running in the Northern Region
Life! General summary brochure
Diabetes Australia- Victoria website.
NEVDGP website Life! templates for Medical Director.
How do I get my patient into a Life! course - The referral process and a list of the local Life! providers.
Updates
- AUSDRISK tool changes - June 2010
The AUSDRISK tool assess whether a person is of a low, intermediate or high risk of developing type 2 diabetes within five years by assigning a score based on a questionnaire. Since the AUSDRISK tool was first developed, further evidence and experience have prompted reconsideration of the score for high risk. As a result, the score at which a person is identified at being of high risk of developing type 2 diabetes has been reduced from 15 down to 12. Read more...
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