The High Price of HIV: Elders on Disability Insurance Struggle After Age 65
Primary Education Topic: Healthcare & Aging Other Education Topics: Health & Wellness Leadership in Aging Legal & Ethical Issues LGBTQ Aging Multicultural Aging Policy and Advocacy People...
View ArticleHealthy People 2020: What's in it for Elders?
Primary Education Topic: Health & Wellness Other Education Topics: Aging in Community Caregiving Health & Wellness LGBTQ Aging Mental Health & Aging Multicultural Aging Policy and...
View ArticleWith DOMA’s (partial) defeat, a new world for LGBT elders
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Other Education Topics: Legal & Ethical Issues Policy and Advocacy After decades of hard work, and the dedication of many LGBT pioneers, this is a moment for...
View ArticleMental Health and Substance Abuse in Older HIV-infected Adults
Primary Education Topic: Mental Health & Aging Other Education Topics: Health & Wellness LGBTQ Aging Multicultural Aging In Part Two of a three-part series in Aging Today on HIV/AIDS in older...
View ArticleAvoiding Guardianship for LGBT Elders Through Advance Planning
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Other Education Topics: Leadership in Aging Legal & Ethical Issues Policy and Advocacy Guardianship is not something anyone wants to contemplate. Having a...
View ArticleLGBT Older Adults and Guardianship Issues
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Other Education Topics: Leadership in Aging Legal & Ethical Issues Policy and Advocacy In many states, guardianship systems have numerous structural gaps and...
View ArticleStart End-of-Life Planning Early to Reduce the Chances of Guardianship
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Other Education Topics: Leadership in Aging Legal & Ethical Issues Policy and Advocacy Past experiences of discrimination by medical professionals may also...
View ArticleLGBT Elders and Guardianship: Avoiding the Risks Through Advance Planning
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Other Education Topics: Leadership in Aging Legal & Ethical Issues Policy and Advocacy For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, advance...
View ArticleDespite Disparities, Most LGBT Elders are Aging Well
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Other Education Topics: Aging in Community Caregiving Health & Wellness Healthcare & Aging Policy and Advocacy Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
View ArticleSteps Healthcare Providers Can Take to Provide Affirming Care to Transgender...
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Other Education Topics: Healthcare & Aging Leadership in Aging Legal & Ethical Issues Transgender elders experience discrimination and social exclusion,...
View ArticleRose’s Journey: 73 Years Old and Transgender
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Rose shared these thoughts on April 18, 2014, in a two-hour interview. Then she highlighted what she felt were the most salient points in a written document...
View ArticleStraight Talk on Aging as a Transgender Person
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Other Education Topics: Health & Wellness Healthcare & Aging Leadership in Aging Legal & Ethical Issues Multicultural Aging Policy and Advocacy On...
View ArticleThe Gender Binary: Like Water Across the Lifespan
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Those who work in the aging services sector see the multiplicity of people’s lives and know it is unwise to think everyone is generally alike. This fallacy,...
View ArticleTransgender Aging: Putting a Face on the Community
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging This is an effort to share an understanding of issues and challenges transgender elders may face. We hope that those who are successfully providing services for...
View ArticleElder Transgender Individuals and Spirituality: Never Too Old To Embody Soul
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Other Education Topics: Spirituality & Religion Religiosity and spirituality, as they pertain to the process of aging, have both been the focus of many...
View ArticleWho Is that Reflected in the Mirror? Uncle David’s story
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Every morning we look at ourselves in the mirror, and see the image we reflect to the world. Who is that person and how did that person come to be?Editor’s note:...
View ArticleJust in Case: A Personal Reflection
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Other Education Topics: Caregiving LGBT elders and the professionals who are be assisting them may find the following tips helpful, just in case. By Ken...
View ArticleLGBT Individuals as Caregivers for Aging Parents and Partners
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Other Education Topics: Caregiving When I was a teenager in the ’80s we lived with my grandmother, who had dementia. My mother was a “woman in the middle”—she had...
View ArticleAvoiding Complicated Grief Among LGBT Caregivers
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Other Education Topics: Caregiving The movie If These Walls Could Talk 2 provides an excellent yet heartbreaking example of how the lack of acceptance of gay and...
View ArticleThe Ins and Outs of LGBT Caregiving
Primary Education Topic: LGBTQ Aging Other Education Topics: Caregiving We, (those of us older than 50) are now finding out what Bette Davis knew, that “Old age ain’t no place for sissies.” Those of...
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