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Don't miss out on our Community Forum next Tuesday with special guest speaker Maggie Dent
You're invited to out Supporting Families Community Forum.
This free event will be on Tuesday 29 October from 9.30 -12pm, at UWA.
Maggie Dent, the queen of common sense and mother of a son living with T1D, delivers practical advice to help parents build their teens resillience and cope with anxiety while living with T1D.
Also hear from leading Children's Diabetes Centre Researchers: Dr Keely Bebbington - Mental Health and Wellbeing Theme Lead and registered psychologist, and Dr Aveni Haynes - Pre-Diabetes and Epidemiology Theme Lead.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Telehealth service available
Do you live in rural or regional WA? The Diabetes WA Telehealth for country WA service is a free education and clinical support service, available to people living with diabetes in rural and remote areas of Western Australia in between clinic appointments. The virtual appointments are provided by credentialled diabetes educators.
School holiday camp
During the recent school holidays, Diabetes WA and Perth Children’s Hospital again ran a school holiday camp for kids living with type 1 diabetes. During the camp the Dietitian and Social Work Department ran a fantastic joint therapy group focusing on “things that bug me” and created a “Food Collage”.
Safe use of mobiles
The advancement of technology to assist the daily routine of diabetes is extremely helpful. However, it is important to create clear boundaries in the use of technology. Our social work team have some great tips to set up healthy routines.
Paddy McCartin visit
It's always great to have special visitors drop into the diabetes clinic. In August a group of our kids and parents were fortunate to have a special visit from former Sydney Swans and St Kilda AFL champion and inspiring advocate for those living with T1D.
New CGM opportunity
We are looking for participants aged 14–26 years to be involved in a new study, testing the performance of a new continuous glucose monitoring not yet available in the Australian market. Participants must have been living with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes for longer than 6 months and have HbA1c of less than 10% in the last 3 months.
Changing hypo level?
At what level do you treat hypo’s? Diabetes researchers from PCH would like to find out whether treating hypo’s at a lower level than 3.9 mmol/l is safe and makes managing your diabetes easier. They are looking for participants on closed loop, aged 6-18 years to be involved in their Redefining Hypo Thresholds for Hypo Treatment study.
DiabHQ
Our researchers are collaborating with a team of digital experts to revolutionise diabetes management for children and families living with T1D in Australia.
Read the article on page 66 of The Kids Research Institute Australia 2024 Impact Report to learn how our team are working to transform diabetes care.
The groundbreaking platform DiabHQ integrates diabetes data from different sources in a one-stop-shop for patients and families, clinicians and researchers. The innovative new platform will harness the power of diabetes data to support self-management, improve clinical care, and accelerate research and translation.
