A person with a long-term condition may face many challenges in sticking to a treatment programme. Using diabetes as an example, discuss these challenges and the kinds of health care support that may help a person to overcome them.

I can identify three kinds of reason why people may experience challenges. I will be discussing them each in turn.

Diabetes is a condition where the amount of glucose in the blood is high because the body cannot use it properly, this is because the pancreas does not produce any insulin or not enough insulin to help glucose enter the bodys cells or the insulin that is produced does not work properly, known as insulin resistance. (www.diabetes.org.uk).

One of the most common barriers  is the cultural barrier, it is important to respect a patients cultural value and beliefs. Anwar  migrated from Pakistan, as a young man and he is a Muslim, even though he migrated to the U.K. as a young man that is not to say that he might have forgotten or left his cultural roots and beliefs. It is very difficult to change a persons diet at once or ask Anwar to change the ways of prepar…(short extract)