Diabetes Monitoring for Cognitively Impaired Adults

This project helps adults with cognitive impairments (CI), family members, other caregivers, and medical personnel in monitoring and controlling diabetes in a home setting. The project has fourobjectives: (1) to study how CI affects the over-all self-care, family care, and professional care ofpersons with diabetes; (2) to identify unique needs of adults ages 21-65 with diabetes who have mild tomoderate CI; (3) understand how specific deficits related to CI affect self-monitoring of blood glucose;and (4) to apply these findings to new hardware, software, and educational materials that will enablethis target population to function more independently.