[Diabetes-talk] Iowa Diabetes Action NetworkMeetingandResolution

Tue Oct 15 01:30:47 UTC 2013

Yes, it was brought before us during our state convention years ago.
This was also like 5 years ago or something. I was appointed as chair of
a special committee to do more research and draft an updated version of
the resolution after it failed to pass, but after constant, incessant
communication, the other people appointed to the committee never once in
a single year responded, so we didn't have an updated version to present
the following year. Since, no one has yet to bring forth a similar
resolution.

Bridgit

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Of Sandi Ryan
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 1:24 PM
To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Iowa Diabetes Action
NetworkMeetingandResolution

Hi Bridget,

Did you try at the state level, you mean?  Do you think it would help at
all 
for your affiliate to know that this resolution was approved by Dr.
Maurer?

Sandi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
To: "'Debbie Wunder'" <debbiewunder at centurytel.net>; "'Diabetes Talk for
the 
Blind'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Iowa Diabetes Action Network 
MeetingandResolution

> Congrats. Nebraska tried to pass a similar resolution a few years ago,

> but we weren't able to pass it. Good luck. Iowa is lucky to have you.
>
> Bridgit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Debbie Wunder
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 11:03 AM
> To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Iowa Diabetes Action Network Meeting 
> andResolution
>
>
> Hello Sandy. Congratulations to you and your division.
>
> This is a great resolution, I will take it to our division and 
> convention in March. Would you please mind sharing your agenda with 
> me? I am looking for
> topics for our seminar.
>
> Thanks Debbie
> President, Dan of Missouri
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandi Ryan" <sjryan2 at gmail.com>
> To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 7:19 PM
> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] Iowa Diabetes Action Network Meeting and
> Resolution
>
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I wanted to let you all know that the first official Annual Meeting 
>> of
>
>> the
>> Diabetes Action Network of the National Federation of the Blind of
> Iowa
>> was a success.  Our meeting was held during the state affiliate 
>> convention, on Friday afternoon, October 4, 2013.  Around 30 people 
>> attended our meeting, with 24 paying dues for 2014.  We conducted a
> little
>> business--talking about the history of the division, electing a new 
>> secretary and Board member, and passing a resolution (see below).  
>> Dr.
>
>> Nancy Kane, a well-known Des Moines endocrinologist, spoke with us
> about
>> diabetes basics, potential complications (including some hardly
> mentioned
>> in the usual list), and answered audience questions.  We are very
> happy
>> with the meeting's results.
>>
>> The resolution passed by the IDAN moved on to the Resolutions 
>> Committee, where it was altered a bit and passed on to the Affiliate.

>> On Sunday morning, October 6, the convention passed the resolution 
>> unanimously.
>>
>> Below is the resolution passed by the convention.  We look forward to

>> working with DANs across the country and others interested in this
> issue
>> at the national level.
>>
>> Sandi
>>
>> NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
>>
>> OF IOWA
>>
>>
>>
>> Resolution 13-02
>>
>> Regarding Advocacy to Make Diabetes Tools and Technology Accessible 
>> to
>
>> the
>> Blind
>>
>>
>>
>> WHEREAS, The National Federation of the Blind has, since 1940, 
>> championed the independence of the blind and worked to make the world

>> accessible
> to
>> and safe for the blind; and
>>
>>
>>
>> WHEREAS, to help increase the independence of blind people, the 
>> National Federation of the Blind has fought to make technology, 
>> readily
> available
>> to the sighted, accessible for the blind; and
>>
>>
>>
>> WHEREAS, according to the National Eye Institute (NEI) of the 
>> National Institutes of Health (NIH), diabetic retinopathy is the most

>> common
> cause
>> of blindness, affecting 4.1 million American adults over age 40, and
>>
>>
>>
>> WHEREAS, very little technology currently on the market for 
>> constantly
>
>> or
>> periodically monitoring blood glucose, accurately delivering insulin,
> or
>> performing other tasks to control diabetes is accessible to the 
>> blind,
> and
>> insulin pens carry a disclaimer that they should not be used by the
> blind
>> without supervision; and
>>
>>
>>
>> WHEREAS, technology has been demonstrated to increase diabetes 
>> control
>
>> in
>> the sighted, and the same technology, made accessible to the blind
> would
>> improve diabetes control among blind and visually impaired diabetics,
> and
>> increase independence in maintaining such control;; and
>>
>>
>>
>> WHEREAS, the need for improved accessibility of lifesaving diabetes 
>> technology has been largely overlooked: Now, therefore,
>>
>>
>>
>> BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind of Iowa in 
>> convention assembled this sixth day of October, 2013, in the city of 
>> Altoona, Iowa, that the National Federation of the Blind of Iowa and
> its
>> Diabetes Action Network division work closely with companies
> developing
>> pens, pumps, glucometers, and other lifesaving diabetes control tools
> and
>> technology to integrate accessibility for the blind into the design
> and
>> manufacture of such items; and
>>
>>
>>
>> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the National Federation of the Blind of 
>> Iowa enlist the support of the American Diabetes Association, the 
>> American Association of Retired Persons, the American Association of 
>> Clinical Endocrinologists, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid 
>> Services to
>
>> establish and implement accessibility standards for diabetes
> technology;
>> and
>>
>>
>>
>> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the National Federation of the Blind of 
>> Iowa urge manufacturers of technology that provides information to 
>> the
> blind
>> about diabetes management to recognize that creating technology 
>> useful
>
>> only to the sighted creates a circumstance that discriminates against
> the
>> blind, and urge such manufacturers further to recognize that the 
>> blind
> of
>> Iowa will join with other blind people throughout the nation to take
> such
>> action as may be necessary to end this discrimination; and
>>
>>
>>
>> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Iowa Diabetes Action Network 
>> publicize widely the inaccessibility of diabetes tools and technology

>> as they
> are
>> currently marketed, and the unnecessary hardship their 
>> inaccessibility
>
>> creates in the lives of blind diabetics.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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