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

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... care (T1 and T2) costs 110 billion Euro, and that T1 patients incur higher mean treatment costs than T2 patients.