Worried about my mother, thinking it's LADA

[MarieB]

this post explains all the tests she needs to ask for

Melitta's Top Ten Tips for the Newly Diagnosed Person with Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes

Despite what you may be told by medical professionals and what you might read, you (as a person with adult-onset Type 1 diabetes) are not “rare” or some “minority.” Adults represent the vast majority of new-onset Type 1 diabetes (Footnote 1); it is a widespread myth and falsehood that Type 1 diabetes is a childhood disease. Learn all you can, but at a pace that does not overwhelm you. Good sources of learning are Think Like a Pancreas by Gary Scheiner (although he does perpetuate some myths a…

I don’t know the answers to #2 and 3, but I doubt that it’s standard practice, just judging from the amount of LADAs here who report their initial experience as being misdiagnosed w type2