Contemporary health care practices are going through a historical crisis. In contrast to expressive scientific and technological development, these practices are encountering serious limitations to effectively respond to individuals' and populations' complex health needs. This experience report aims to reflect on the empowerment of innovative educational technology towards self-care together with elderly people with diabetes mellitus. The development of the analysis is oriented by experience reports in primary health care assistance, extracted from these authors' daily work. Reception, accessibility to information, knowledge, respect, linking, identity, and responsibility are singled out as key features in understanding the interactions between health professionals, patients, and family members. The construction of empowerment care in nursing provides the elderly to be protagonists of the process, encouraging self-care through the therapeutic alliance between the elderly, the health care professional, and family.
Educational technology; Aged; Diabetes mellitus; Nursing