DR 6.14: PAL System impact valorization and future perspectives

PAL developed a Personal Assistant for healthy Lifestyle (PAL), a system that will assist the child, health professional and parent to advance the self-management of children with type 1 diabetes aged 7 - 14, so that an adequate shared patient-caregiver responsibility for child’s diabetes regimen is established before adolescence. 

The incidence of childhood type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is rising rapidly, with the number of reported cases doubling every 20 years. It is estimated that diabetic care (T1 and T2) costs 110 billion Euro, and that T1 patients incur higher mean treatment costs than T2 patients.