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The #dedoc° blog features articles and opinion pieces written by our international network of diabetes advocates: the #dedoc° voices. From scientific conferences to the latest diabetes research and technology, from challenges faced by those living with diabetes to global disparities in healthcare, our #dedoc° voices cover it all.
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A new #dedocº voice through the ‘Loved Experience’
Sheila reflects on attending the Diabetes UK Professional Conference 2025 not as a person living with diabetes, but as someone who loves and supports someone who does. Arriving as a carer and leaving as part of the #dedocº Voices community, this piece explores how diabetes shapes entire families. It highlights the value of the loved experience alongside lived experience, and why caregivers’ perspectives deserve recognition in research, policy, and professional spaces.