Healthcare Policy and Transitional Care

Telehealth options including telemonitoring and telephone support could help connect patients with specialist care after discharge. The GET-IT intervention, as designed, is predominantly psychosocial and developmental, but some caregivers expressed a stronger desire for diabetes knowledge education and concrete management tips than for psychosocial content. Qualitative literature on T1D transition readiness has historically centred on the perspectives of adolescents and young adults, with parents and caregivers rarely included as the primary focus. Transition care programs are defined as purposeful, gradual processes designed to move adolescents with chronic conditions from child-focused to adult-focused healthcare and are recommended across major clinical practice guidelines. Current transition programs rarely provide targeted support or structured guidance specifically for parents and caregivers, contributing to elevated caregiver stress and parent-adolescent conflict. Interventions that improve care coordination and follow-up access may paradoxically increase readmission rates because patients receive needed care rather than being left unsupported. Readmission should not be und…