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Serving LGBT Older Adults: Are you ready?

Serving LGBT Older Adults: Are you ready? . Mary Chilvers, MLIS, MS Rajean Moone, PhD. Age & Disabilities Odyssey, June 2013. info@trainingtoserve.org http://www.trainingtoserve.org. What We’ll Cover. Overview Scenarios Practical Solutions Resources. Biological Sex.

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Serving LGBT Older Adults: Are you ready?

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  1. Serving LGBT Older Adults: Are you ready? Mary Chilvers, MLIS, MS Rajean Moone, PhD Age & Disabilities Odyssey, June 2013 info@trainingtoserve.org http://www.trainingtoserve.org

  2. What We’ll Cover Overview Scenarios Practical Solutions Resources

  3. Biological Sex • Objectively measureable organs, hormones and chromosomes. www.ItsPronouncedMetrosexual.com Male Female Intersex Source: www.ItsPronouncedMetrosexual.com

  4. Sexual Orientation • Who you are physically, spiritually and emotionally attracted to based on their sex/gender in relation to your own Homosexual Heterosexual Bisexual Straight Gay Man Lesbian Source: www.ItsPronouncedMetrosexual.com

  5. Gender Identity • How you, in your head, think about yourself. It’s the chemistry that composes you and how you interpret what that means. Man Woman Genderqueer Source: www.ItsPronouncedMetrosexual.com

  6. Gender Expression • How you demonstrate your gender (based on traditional gender roles) through the ways you act, dress, behave, and interact. Masculine Feminine Androgynous Source: www.ItsPronouncedMetrosexual.com

  7. Transgender • People whose gender identity differs from the gender assigned at birth. • Transwoman (MTF – male to female) • Transman (FTM – female to male) • Cisgender

  8. Overview Pre-Stonewall (1969) life experiences Baby Boomers (1946-1964) Estimated 2.8 million nationwide

  9. History • Legal • Psychological • Spiritual Coming Out in the 1950s: Reign of Terrorhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGOnoPnmeH4&feature=related

  10. Reluctance to Access Services • LGBT elders are 5 times less likely to access social services than larger population • Tend to wait for crises • Feel need to return to closet • Heterosexuality assumed • Cisgender assumed

  11. Isolation • Live Alone (1.5X) • No Children (4X) • No Caregiver (2X) Gay Seniors: No Kids, No Partner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIxZDiQ5uOY&feature=colike

  12. Assumptions • Inform programs/services • Limit language for intake • Limit discussion of relationships • Limit life reminiscing • Marginalize/alienate LGB&T elders

  13. Differences in Aging • Face old age alone • Lack traditional family supports in times of crisis • Invisible to providers/policy makers • Discriminated against because they are gay or transgender • Shunned because they are old

  14. Scenarios • What can you do? • Sisters • Merrilee • Answer questions in the scenario • Report out to the group

  15. Suggestions • Inclusive infrastructure • Welcoming environment • Effective communication • Open-ended questions • Gender-neutral language • Staff & Resident Sensitivity Training 

  16. Contact Information Training to Serve www.trainingtoserve.org Mary Chilvers mary.a.chilvers@state.mn.us Rajean Moonerajean@rajeanmoone.com

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