What We Are Doing
We spent a great amount of time simply defining our concerns and fears. And then we looked at solutions and tools to help us live our best lives into old age, with safety and confidence.
Our team includes T1Ds, researchers, and healthcare professionals. We are driven to find the best answers to aging gracefully with diabetes. Together, we bring over 942 years of collective T1D wisdom and experiences!
We are looking to the research community to validate our solutions and then share them with other T1Ds, our medical teams, our diabetes educators, and our loved ones.
Up until now, there has been very little attention paid to our aging T1D demographic. We need to call attention to our needs and help to effect changes in our care, knowledge within the caregiving community and information about our changing needs as we age. Please join us to make an impact in all our lives and diabetes care.
Last updated 08/05/2025.
Recent Stories
Choosing Your 2027 Medicare Plan: An Open Enrollment Guide for People with Type 1 Diabetes
We have created this guide on how to choose your 2027 medicare plan including important dates, commons mistakes, and a checklist of things to do. There are also special insights on what you need to keep in mind, programs that could be helpful, and changes from the previous year. Read the full article for everything you need to know!
Intrinsic Capacity: The Most Important Longevity Term You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Intrinsic Capacity is a new term experts are hoping to use to determine a person’s overall health in an effort to implement interventions for a longer, healthier, and happier life. Intrinsic Capacity is measured in five different key areas including cognition, locomotion, sensory capacity, psychological well-being, and vitality. Several studies are being implemented across the US to learn more on how to improve the accuracy of this metric and use it, eventually, for all ages.
LADA: Why So Many Adults Are Misdiagnosed With Type 2 Diabetes
A YouTube discussion from Taking Care of Your Diabetes (TCOYD) on why 4 in 10 people who are diagnosed with Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA) are told they have Type 2 Diabetes first and the impact of this misdiagnosis on their health and progress.