March 10, 2020

How to Incorporate Peer Support into Your Practice with Hope Warshaw

The Huddle is the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists Podcast. I was delighted to be a guest on The Huddle to discuss one of my favorite topics, peer support. A goal of this episode was to feature and discuss the recently published ADCES Perspectives in Practice paper for which I served as first author, The Role and Value of Ongoing and Peer Support in Diabetes Care and Education (The Diabetes Educator, December 2019.) During the episode I defined peer support and discussed how and why I became involved in advocating for peer support among people with diabetes and their caregivers nearly a decade ago. I went on to talk about how peer support can improve peoples’ emotional wellbeing and why healthcare providers should gain competence to support peer support and refer people with diabetes and their caregivers to resources.  Read here...