AARP recently completed
a far-reaching survey that elevated statistics about the LGBT aging experience. LGBT elders fear discrimination in health care and are worried about coming out in long-term care facilities. Black and Latino LGBT populations have these anxieties in an even higher proportion.
Perhaps the most telling statistic is that 88 percent of older LGBT people want LGBT-trained care providers. This validates the importance of
SAGECare, SAGE's LGBT cultural competency training program, which has trained more than 10,000 providers in 46 states over the past year. “With this new survey, AARP has made a vital contribution to increasing awareness about the lives, challenges, and resiliencies of LGBT older people,”
says SAGE CEO Michael Adams. “The important work now is to do everything possible to respond to the acute needs documented in the survey so that LGBT older people have the same opportunities in their later years as all older Americans.”
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