[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-592546-105":59,"doc-detail-592546-en":129},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":122,"head_meta":124,"extra_data":126,"updated_unix":128},105,"en","learning-to-live-with-chronic-illness-in-later-life-empowering-myself","Learning to live with chronic illness in later life - Empowering myself","","Learning to live with chronic illness in later life examines self-management, empowerment, and lifelong learning through an autoethnographical account of an older woman diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes ten years earlier in the United Kingdom. It reflects on how identifying, accessing, and using resources supports practical day-to-day control of an incurable condition, while considering feminist perspectives, patient choice, and regional differences in care. The paper also interrogates whether current healthcare for older women with Type 2 diabetes is appropriate and discusses diabetes as a chronic illness and hidden disability.",{"@graph":69,"@context":121},[70,84,104],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":35,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/healthcare/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/learning-to-live-with-chronic-illness-in-later-life-empowering-myself/592546/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":98,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":99,"interactionStatistic":100},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/learning-to-live-with-chronic-illness-in-later-life-empowering-myself/592546.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Mimi","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":101,"interactionType":102,"userInteractionCount":8},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":103},"ViewAction",{"@type":105,"mainEntity":106},"FAQPage",[107,113,117],{"name":108,"@type":109,"acceptedAnswer":110},"What is the paper’s main focus?","Question",{"text":111,"@type":112},"The paper explores learning to live with Type 2 diabetes in later life through the author’s own autoethnographical experience and self-management approach.","Answer",{"name":114,"@type":109,"acceptedAnswer":115},"How does the author define empowerment in this context?",{"text":116,"@type":112},"Empowerment is described as the ability to identify, access, and use necessary resources to take control of an illness, aligned with patient choice and feminist health-care perspectives.",{"name":118,"@type":109,"acceptedAnswer":119},"Why does the paper discuss Type 2 diabetes specifically?",{"text":120,"@type":112},"It explains Type 2 diabetes as a chronic illness and hidden disability, how it differs from Type 1, and the need for tight blood-sugar control to prevent complications.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":123,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":125,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":127,"site_id":62},592546,1792107632,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":130},{"doc_id":127,"user_id":131,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":132,"doc_module":4,"category_id":34,"category_name":35,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":133,"file_id":134,"file_url":135,"file_type":136,"file_size":137,"view_count":8,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":138,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":36},2336477974920,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d","Australian Journal of Adult Learning Volume 57, Number 3, November 2017  \nLearning to live with chronic illness in later life: Empowering myself  \nAlexandra Withnall  \nUniversity of Warwick, UK  \n7\\SH 􀀕 'LDEHWHV LV ERWK DQ LQFXUDEOH LOOQHVV DQG D KLGGHQ GLVDELOLW\\ WKDW has reached epidemic proportions on a global scale. It has obviously VSDZQHG D KXJH FOLQLFDO OLWHUDWXUH􀀏 EXW QR VFKRODUO\\ DFFRXQWV RIOHDUQLQJ WR OLYH ZLWK WKH LOOQHVV RQ D GDLO\\ EDVLV IURP D IHPLQLVW SHUVSHFWLYH􀀑$V DQ ROGHU ZRPDQ􀀏 , KDYH PDGH XVH RID VRPHZKDW FRQWURYHUVLDO DXWRHWKQRJUDSKLFDO DSSURDFK WR H[SORUH KRZIDU, FRQVLGHU P\\VHOI HPSRZHUHG WR OLYH ZLWK􀀏 DQG PDQDJH WKLV FRQGLWLRQIRU WKH UHVW RI my life. Self-management is an idea that is central to both the United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS) philosophy of supporting SDWLHQW FKRLFH DQG ZLWKLQ D IHPLQLVW SHUVSHFWLYH RQ KHDOWK FDUH 􀀑 /HDUQLQJto identify, access and use the necessary resources to manage my FRQGLWLRQ VXJJHVWV WKDW WKHUH DUH UHJLRQDO GL̆HUHQFHV ZLWKLQ WKH 8. DV WRKRZ PXFK SUDFWLFDO FDUH GLDEHWHVSDWLHQWV DUH R̆HUHG RU FDQ DFF HVV􀀑 7KH SDWHUQDOLVWLF QDWXUH RIWKH KHDOWK FDUH WHDP􀀒SDWLHQW UHODWLRQVKLS DSSHDUV WR PLOLWDWH DJDLQVW WKH FRQFHSW RISDWLHQW HPSRZHUPHQW􀀑  \nKeywords: diabetes, autoethnography, feminism, learning, self-care, lifestyle.  \nLearning to live with chronic illness in later life: Empowering myself 475  \nIntroduction  \nAs awareness of ageing populations grows across the world, enjoying a sense of physical and mental well-being by remaining active in society and retaining independence for as long as possible have come to be seen as desirable aims. Adult educators have been especially persuasive in emphasising the importance of continuing to learn throughout life as an essential ingredient of healthy ageing. Indeed, there is growing international evidence that learning in later life offers a whole range RIEHQH¿WV QRW RQO\\ WR LQGLYLGXDO OHDUQHUV DV WKH\\ DJH EXW DOVR WR WKHLU families, their communities and to the societies in which they live. Yet we know that for many people, the later years can bring varying degrees of ill health and the chances of growing older in good health vary greatly between countries. From a European perspective, it is fortunate that most people can generally still expect a good standard of health care in later life. Nevertheless, poor health in later life can be compounded by isolation or increasing poverty as well as by inequalities in accessing good quality health care.  \nWhat is surprising is that those involved in researching or facilitating later life learning rarely contemplate their own ageing or consider what it might mean to be forced to live with an illness or disability as they grow older. Yet as people approach their later years, some degree of change in well-being is inevitable. Understanding the nature of such changes is important in helping to cope with the challenges of daily life and with maintaining an acceptable lifestyle with age as well as enabling researchers to gain an insight into the lives of some of the older people with whom they work. As an older woman living in the United Kingdom (UK) who was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes ten years ago, my aim in WKLV SDSHU LV WR H[SORUH DQG UHÀHFW XSRQ P\\ RZQ H[SHULHQFH RIOHDUQLQJ WR live with this incurable illness over a decade using an autoethnographical approach. Have I empowered myself to live with this condition for therest of my life and could my personal experience be meaningful for others? In this context, I understand empowerment as the ability to identify, access and make use of the resources necessary to take control of my illness, an idea that is central both to the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) philosophy of supporting patient choice and within a IHPLQLVW SHUVSHFWLYH RQ KHDOWK FDUH􀀑 0\\ ¿UVW DLP LV WR RIIHU D QHZ DQG potentially valuable empirical resource since there are no scholarly accounts of learning to live with Type 2 diabetes from the perspective of  \n476 Ale","cbCaifa4EUfCa6MY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifa4EUfCa6MY","pdf",94330,16,"English","# Introduction\n## What is Type 2 diabetes?","[{\"question\":\"What is the paper’s main focus?\",\"answer\":\"The paper explores learning to live with Type 2 diabetes in later life through the author’s own autoethnographical experience and self-management approach.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author define empowerment in this context?\",\"answer\":\"Empowerment is described as the ability to identify, access, and use necessary resources to take control of an illness, aligned with patient choice and feminist health-care perspectives.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper discuss Type 2 diabetes specifically?\",\"answer\":\"It explains Type 2 diabetes as a chronic illness and hidden disability, how it differs from Type 1, and the need for tight blood-sugar control to prevent complications.\"}]","Learning to live with chronic illness in later life - Empowering myself | PDF",1792074802]