Friday, April 04, 2014

Trans-Elders

One of the big areas of unknown for trans-people is what will happen when we get old and have to go into a nursing home. At the committee on LGBT aging last week we talked about Project Visibility, they have a great training program for healthcare providers,
Project Visibility is a training program developed in 2004 by Boulder County Aging Services, after the agency conducted extensive focus groups with area LGBT elders. These seniors wondered which service providers were “safe and friendly” and feared many could be unwelcoming, even hostile. The goal of Project Visibility is to co-create an aging services community that is informed, sensitive to, and supportive of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender elders. The training is designed for administrators and staff of nursing homes, assisted living residences, home care agencies, and other senior service providers, as well as the friends and families of LGBT elders.
They also have good videos for the training that actually have trans-people in them, something you don’t see much in other LGBT training videos.

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