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December 8, 2025Diabetes Care59 citations

Older Adults: Standards of Care in Diabetes—2026

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RMRozalina G. McCoyKBKirthikaa BalapattabiRBRaveendhara R. Bannuru

Key Points

  • Quality of care improves with established clinical practice recommendations for diabetes management.
  • Key practices enhance diabetes care for older adults, contributing to better health outcomes.
  • The current guideline was developed by the Professional Practice Committee focused on diabetes treatment strategies.
  • These standards may enhance diabetes care, calling for updated recommendations based on emerging evidence.

Abstract

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) “Standards of Care in Diabetes” includes the ADA’s current clinical practice recommendations and is intended to provide the components of diabetes care, general treatment goals and guidelines, and tools to evaluate quality of care. Members of the ADA Professional Practice Committee for Diabetes, an interprofessional expert committee, are responsible for updating the Standards of Care annually, or more frequently as warranted. For a detailed description of ADA standards, statements, and reports, as well as the evidence-grading system for ADA’s clinical practice recommendations and a full list of Professional Practice Committee members, please refer to Introduction and Methodology. Readers who wish to comment on the Standards of Care are invited to do so at professional.diabetes.org/SOC.

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McCoy et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69401f0f2d562116f28fa30dhttps://doi.org/10.2337/dc26-s013
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