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T1DStrong – Aging with Type 1 Diabetes: Joanne Milo on Research Gaps and Systems Reform

T1DStrong – Aging with Type 1 Diabetes: Joanne Milo on Research Gaps and Systems Reform

More adults are reaching older age with type 1 diabetes (T1D) than ever before, yet research, hospital care, and long-term support systems have not kept pace with their needs. Joanne Milo, diagnosed in 1965, is pushing for change through advocacy, research discussions, and her platform T1D to 100. As the population of older adults living with T1D grows, she argues that the health care system must respond with better data, better training, and better infrastructure.

Interview – Hearts Afire: Surviving the 2025 Altadena Wildfire

Interview – Hearts Afire: Surviving the 2025 Altadena Wildfire

She saw it coming closer on social media and the TV News, she heard the howling winds, but she couldn’t imagine that it could reach all the way to her house. So many previous fires had stayed in the foothills and not ventured into the neighborhoods of Altadena, CA. But as a T1D of 61 years, Dorothy Noe smelled, and then saw, the approaching danger. Over a period of hours on January 7 and 8, 2025, she and her husband had to take action. When she evacuated her house that dark, early morning, she never imagined that she’d never return.