Nursing and Health Sciences Journal (NHSJ)
Culturally embedded resilience in the diabetes-COVID-19 syndemic: A phenomenological study of older adults in Bali, Indonesia
The COVID-19–diabetes mellitus (DM) syndemic disproportionately threatened older adults with Type 2 DM globally. This study investigates the culturally embedded resilience mechanisms enabling older Balinese adults with long-standing T2DM to maintain complication-free status during this crisis, directly challenging dominant deficit narratives. A descriptive phenomenological study grounded in Husserlian principles recruited ten older adults (aged 56–70; T2DM ≥20 years) in Badung Regency, Bali, utilizing purposive sam …