Growing old and dying with diabetes: diabetic experiences right up to the end of life

A "midi de la recherche" offered by the club Expérience santé et autonomie (EXSA).

When you've been living with diabetes for years, what happens as you age? Does it push you to let go of certain everyday things, or, on the contrary, to remain more attentive than ever to your body?

For this second edition, we welcome Marie Barroyer, a doctoral student in sociology at the TETRAS laboratory, on a CIFRE contract with the Fédération Française des Diabétiques to discuss: "Aging and dying with diabetes: diabetic experiences right up to the end of life"

Marie works on elderly people with diabetes, and is interested in the effects of this disease on aging: does diabetes encourage forms of "taking" or, on the contrary, of "de-taking" in advancing age? Does it accelerate aging, or does it contribute to slowing it down in certain dimensions of daily life and the relationship with the body?

His research focuses both on the experience of elderly diabetics living at home, for whom the question of maintaining and adapting care arises, and on that of institutionalized people, in EHPAD or hospital settings, where the objectives of medical care may be re-interrogated with regard to old age, autonomy and quality of life.

And always, this question in the background: how does age transform ways of caring - and caring for oneself?

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