While many don’t personally mind being referred to as a “diabetic”, I use the term “person with diabetes” in speech and writing because for many, “diabetic” sounds like labeling or separated from the fact that we are all people first and foremost–who just happens to live with diabetes. In a prioritized effort to welcome all readers and reach as many as possible, “person with diabetes” is a preferable term. Experts Call for Diabetes Language Changes Recently, experts from the ADA and Diabetes Association of Diabetes Educators came up with a set of guidelines concerning the use of language in diabetes care and education. The article is published in the ADA’s Diabetes Care journal. Their article gives recommendations for language to be used by healthcare providers and others when they talk about diabetes in spoken or written words whenever they are directing people with diabetes, colleagues, or the general public. In […]
