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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...

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Healthy 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...

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With 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...

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Mental 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...

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Avoiding 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...

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LGBT 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...

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Start 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...

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LGBT 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...

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Despite 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...

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Steps 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,...

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Rose’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...

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Straight 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...

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The 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,...

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Transgender 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...

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Elder 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...

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Who 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:...

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Just 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...

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LGBT 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...

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Avoiding 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...

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The 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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