CEC launches new project for shoes for people with diabetes
The European Footwear Confederation (CEC) and partners from Czechia, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Romania have begun a new project called DiaSHOE.
With funding from the European Commission, the project’s aim will be to help footwear manufacturers address the needs of people with diabetes.
“Diabetes currently affects 463 million people worldwide and complications in the lower limbs caused by the disease are frequent,” CEC said on announcing the development. It said that, in 80% of cases, there is a link between Diabetic Foot Syndrome (DFS) and inappropriate footwear.
Project partners will produce a series of digital education packages to guide footwear manufacturers, patients, healthcare workers, and shoe-store staff towards, making, choosing and selling “appropriate footwear” for people with diabetes.
