My father was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes four years ago. The management plan his endocrinologist gave him was thorough dietary guidance, exercise targets, a glucose monitoring schedule, medication timing, and a list of symptoms that warranted a call to the office. On paper it was complete. In practice, he was a sixty-seven-year-old retired engineer who had managed complex systems his entire career and still found coordinating all of this genuinely difficult. Not because he lacked the intelli