Adult Diabetes Care

About Joslin's Adult Diabetes Care Services

If diabetes is part of your life, the place to turn is Joslin Clinic. Nowhere else in the world will you find more people and programs specializing exclusively in treating all types of diabetes.

The Pathway to Lifelong Health

Joslin Clinic is the world’s first and most respected diabetes care facility. It was founded on the belief that the key to managing diabetes is with patient involvement, education and empowerment.

JoslinCare™

JoslinCare is a multi-disciplinary program that helps people with diabetes get state-of-the-art medical care, patient education, and aggressive prevention and management of complications.

Whether you are newly diagnosed with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, or want to improve your control and prevent complications, we can help you map out a personalized diabetes care plan.

A Team of Experts

All of our physicians, diabetes educators, and specialty providers are expert in all facets of diabetes. Joslin Clinic has the highest concentration of certified diabetes educators—nurses, dietitians, exercise physiologists, nurse practitioners and mental health professionals–anywhere in the world.

Joslin Clinic also provides inpatient medical consultation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC).

Education: The Key to Managing Your Diabetes

Good diabetes management starts with learning skills you can use to make good food choices, increase your physical activity in an appropriate way and monitor your blood glucose level.

Joslin's expert team of Certified Diabetes Educators, including nutritionists and exercise physiology, can help you learn those skills. Read More

Diabetes Education Programs

Joslin Clinic programs provide for a wide range of options for people with diabetes, including educational programs such as:

Diabetes Today—providing comprehensive education for the patient who is newly diagnosed;
DO IT Program—a four-day intensive educational and medical therapeutic program that provides comprehensive education and medical care;
Insulin Pump Program—providing an opportunity for patients to start insulin pump therapy, or for those who need to refresh their pump knowledge and/or adjust treatment.

Diabetes Weight Management Programs

Losing weight is hard—but when you have diabetes, it’s even harder.

That’s why the diabetes and weight management experts at the Joslin Diabetes Center two programs—Why WAIT? and YOU-Turn—based on extensive clinical research and designed especially for people with diabetes.

Joslin Clinic Recognitions

The American Diabetes Association for meeting the national standards for excellence in diabetes education.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance/American Diabetes Association Diabetes Physician Recognition Program.
The Heart/Stroke Recognition program through the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for superior cardiovascular/stroke care.