Abstract
erson-centred care highlights the importance of knowing the person behind the patient in order to engage that person as an active partner in his/her care and treatment. 1 When a child gets diabetes the whole family needs to be involved and the parents are often the primary caregivers. We therefore suggest that the concept of family-centred care is more suitable in this context. Taking care of diabetes ‐ for example, selfmanagement of diabetes ‐in children and adolescents is an active and proactive process that involves activities and goals, and is continuously ongoing. It involves shared but shifting responsibility for diabetes care and decision making between the child and their parents, and it is a process that also involves health care staff. 2 To be able to plan the treatment and care together with the parents and the child, it is necessary to know/ collect data regarding the family’s abilities and needs. The incidence of type 1 diabetes among children and
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