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Helping Diabetic Teens Become Film-Makers Diabetes at school is tough to manage, no doubt. From changing school nurse policies, fighting for compliance with 504 plans, to educating teachers on D-devices and D-needs to preventing other kids from embarrassing or even bullying kids and teens......
New Academy for Certified Diabetes Educators Butts Up Against AADE Ever wonder how the D-educators get educated themselves? We often do. Now we've learned that there's a new non-profit organization on the block aimed specifically at serving those diabetes educators who already have the "certified" tag behind the......
Why the Older Americans Act is Important The Older Americans Act and Me After they both retired, my parents volunteered with Meals on Wheels, which delivers food to home-bound elders. Programs like Meals on Wheels have been supported through legislation like the Older Americans Act (OAA), a historic bill that was passed in 1965 to help all of us remain independent in our homes and communities as we age, but which has been overdue for reauthorization (the process by which Congress makes changes to laws over time) since 2011. Independence is something my friends and I think about a lot now that we are in our 50s...
Sunday Funnies: Does Diabetes Make You… Crabby? In this age of Twitter and texting, not everything is as it seems... Read carefully: Oh, Autocorrect, how you make life interesting!Thanks to cartoonist and fellow type 1 blogger Meredith Pack, a graphic designer in Lousville, KY, who blogs at......