i think living to 100 for non-diabetics is still a rare case. I want to at least make it to 75 healthy and happy with no complications, any time after that would be a nice bonus.
There are people who have survived 75 years with Type 1 Diabetes, and many 50 years, and lots of people on these forums who have made 25 and 30 years without complications. So that gives me hope that if they can do this well with the technology and methods used 20 or 30 years ago, it should be much easier for someone newly diagnosed (like myself).
For someone to be 100years old today, they would have had to be born before 1914, insulin wasn't even invented until the 20s, so making it to 100 after being diagnosed at 7 years old would require some luck and skill.
I would think Type 1 diagnoses would be rare past 40yrs old which would put birth around 1954, which means did decades during what seems like the 'dark agaes' of diabetes management lol Treatment seems very dated when looking back, so it would again, require some luck and skill to get to 100 even for someone diagnosed in the 50s and 60s.
The largest issue i find is that there is no data available yet on how long newly diagnosed diabetics actually live when put directly on the pump and CGM, there is predictions that say their life would only be shortened by a handful of years if otherwise healthy, but again shortened from what ? There is no way to know how long they would have lived without diabetes..
