How do you counsel your patients with diabetes that tighter glycemic control could be harmful as they age when they've been committed to a goal A1c% <7.0-7.5 for many years?

I counsel my elderly patients and their families that at a certain age, the risk of developing long-term sequela of diabetes (eye disease, kidney disease) becomes lower because those things take many years to develop. However, elderly people are more vulnerable to medication side effects, so we adjust our goals to keep their diabetes pretty well controlled but not so tight that they harm from too much medication.