We’re back with Episode 68 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast packed with unfiltered reflections on all thing’s diabetes!

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This Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (⁠https://cdeonline.co.za/⁠), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes.

Whether you're living with diabetes, a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, or supporting someone with diabetes, you're in the right place! Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

"Make sure that your story is heard!"

This week Stan and Michael reflect on just some of the many learnings from two Iconic CDE Meetings recently concluded:

Ethical Narratives in Chronic Care (23 August 2024) and

The 26th CDE Academy Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management (23-25 August 2024)

We talk about:

• The importance of stories and narratives in the provision of health care
• Person-centred connection skills in health professionals
• Non-healthcare insights that can enhance healthcare
• The rise of excess adiposity and diabetes in people with successfully treated chronic HIV infection
• Creative ethical solutions in solid organ transplants
• ‘Patient’ to ‘person’ - Inclusivity and narrative agency insights from personal storytelling
• Social determinants of health
• New technologies released at and presented on at the Forum
• Complementary medicine risks and the intersection of Western medicine with traditional medicine
• Coping with human development challenges in the ‘golden years’ like menopause, frailty and fall risk
• Coaching in total diabetes management #Brave! Sr Madelein Young
• The role of emotions in modifying our thoughts and our behavioural responses

We sign out with the sad news of the passing of a passionate chronic healthcare activist and advocate, Dr Vicki Pinkney-Atkinson

Advocacy message

Elré Clarence gives an update on their million steps challenge for Diabetes Advocacy

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For health professionals working in diabetes

The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ ⁠https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/⁠

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ ⁠https://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde