App-solutley fabulous: Smartphone apps and type 1 diabetes management in children and adolescents
More than 80% of Australian adolescents aged 14-17 years own a smartphone, and are frequent users of phone apps1. Increasingly, children...
More than 80% of Australian adolescents aged 14-17 years own a smartphone, and are frequent users of phone apps1. Increasingly, children...
One year ago I started do-it-yourself (DIY) looping with the hybrid closed loop system, OpenAPS1. I’d been living with type 1 diabetes...
If asked, many parents would be likely to agree that inheriting the “worry gene” is almost a rite of passage when having children. However, parents...
Older age is a vital life stage. Most older people are independent and self-caring but some depend on varying degrees of support, especially older...
Standing in line I suddenly feel this sense of dread, that feeling that my blood glucose level (BGL) is dropping and quickly. Is my BGL dropping? Is...
The Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA), the Australian Diabetes Society (ADS) and the Australian Paediatric Endocrine Group (APEG) are...
Community health centres often have co-located services that include oral health programs, allied health and general medical practices. Yet these...
Communication is the central act in diabetes care. Face to face conversations between people with diabetes and their health professionals (HPs) remain...