For more information about Canadian Diabetes Association Stores, click the following link for contact information for each of our stores. For more information, click here . The best way for a person to manage diabetes is for them to become as familiar as possible with the disease and how to effectively deal with it. To help support this process, Canadian Diabetes Association facilitates a range of activities intended to provide information to people affected by diabetes. These can include breakfast meetings, lunch time meetings with speakers, evening and weekend seminars, weekend retreats, puppet programs for schools and seminars focused on specific groups such as seniors, etc.
Most insurance companies view diabetes as a pre-existing condition.
This affects an individual's premium charges and coverage. The CDA believes people living with diabetes should have access to reasonable and adequate insurance. To date, the Association has been successful in securing both travel and life insurance for its members. Since 1994, the CDA has been able to offer special travel insurance in which diabetes is not treated as a pre-existing condition. With this plan, people who require emergency medical treatment for complications caused by diabetes, are automatically covered for 80 per cent of their eligible healthcare expenses while travelling abroad.