The purpose of this study was to obtain nursing suggestions regarding caring for middle-aged women with type 2 diabetes from talking about food-related work. The story of two women who completed their dietetic treatment were analyzed in the qualitative induction, and the care given to the patients was reported.
　The following inferences were drawn from both the women patients' case: "gender role was important," "a crisis in self-adjustment owing to the major shift in their lives" "knowledge of the body," and "Discovery and use of resources."
　Thus, it was thought that the characteristics of women who were middle-aged with type 2 diabetes were embedded in the meaning of the gender role, confidence in managing self-adjustment, knowledge of their bodies, and the discovery and use of support resources. The results suggested the importance of nursing that tended to the aspect of the gender role depending on the culture.

　Illness is experienced not only medically but also through social or cultural aspects. A person with an illness can be regarded as a survivor rather than a patient or victim. Some studies have examined survivor experiences and tactics in suffering. Studies examining suffering of people with chronic illnesses have identified people living on the border between illness and the absence of illness who practice escape from the world of illness. Although research has elucidated how some live with illness, these studies focused on how to decrease the effects of the disease on the survivor. Thus, survivor tactics for handling illness other than by decreasing the effects of the illness becomes the important subject. This study focuses on tactics of survivors who conduct performances, such as reading poems or talking, and describes survivor tactics used to deal with the difficulties of living. The present study focused on performance activities in those with primarily psychiatric diseases and social withdrawal. Ethnographical research highlights examples of activity management, performance content, and talk related to illness. Survivors construct relationships, deepen their experiences through their performances, and reconstruct the concept of normal and deviant. Healthcare providers must recognize the value of performance for deepening experiences in patient lives. The relationship between healthcare providers and survivors as well as the ambiguity of normal and deviant concepts should be reconsidered from this perspective.