[Earning- and working disability in long-term diabetic patients]

On the basis of the experiences of the Berlin Central Institution for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases is reported on the capacity to earn their living and the fitness for work of diabetics, especially of 268 long-term diabetics at the age in which they can earn their living and at the retirement age. 31% of these patients belonged to the group of pensioners, 19% of them are still working. 69% of the long-term diabetics are at working age, of them 24% are already pensioners due to diabetes and 4% due to other diseases. Among the complications of diabetes leading to pensioning are frequently mentioned retinopathy, nephropathy in the wider sense, macroangiopathy and neuropathy, rarely, however, instable metabolism. The peculiarities are discussed. In answering the difficult question of the estimation of the incapacity to earn one's living in diabetics in every case the diabetologist should be consulted.