In that vein, one recommendation that we have in diabetes 360° is to support greater connection between the patient and community-based supports. Right now, as a patient with diabetes, there is nowhere I can go to know where to find a cooking class, or if there is a local support group of people like me with type 1, or how I could maybe connect with a local group that walks, to improve my fitness.
There's no central hub for that kind of information. If we were to create that, we would be able to really easily connect a patient with local support programs that were in their mother tongue, perhaps, that were culturally relevant and specific, and that would help people like seniors, perhaps, who might be less inclined to engage with an app, connect in real life with people in their community, who are often doing this already on a volunteer basis. It increases the patients' ability to manage their disease without increasing the burden on the health care system, just by putting the information all together in one spot. That will be one plan we would implement with diabetes 360°.