Ward, NathanielJowsey, TanishaHaora, PennyAspin, CliveYen, Laurann2015-12-081471-2458http://hdl.handle.net/1885/30093Background: Understanding people's social lived experiences of chronic illness is fundamental to improving health service delivery and health outcomes, particularly in relation to self-management activity. In explorations of social lived experiences thisAuthor/s retain copyrightKeywords: Aborigine; adaptive behavior; adult; aged; article; Australia; caregiver; chronic disease; chronic obstructive lung disease; ethnology; heart failure; human; information processing; middle aged; non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus; psychological aspec Aboriginal; chronic heart failure; chronic illness; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; diabetes; Indigenous; qualitative methods; self-management201110.1186/1471-2458-11-6862016-02-24