This workshop will explore the distinct needs of older LGBTQIA+ people, drawing on international perspectives to identify gaps in research, policy, and practice. Older LGBTQIA+ adults represent a growing and diverse population who face unique challenges as they age, which can include increased social isolation, higher rates of mental health difficulties, barriers in accessing health and social care, and persistent experiences of discrimination. Despite these challenges, their needs are not well recognised within ageing, frailty, and palliative care research (among other areas), as well as in health and social care practice more broadly.
This workshop will be framed around a recent scoping review, which synthesises the ways older LGBTQ+ people’s holistic needs have been recognised in research and in holistic need identification tools used in health and social care practice. The scoping review has identified both strengths and limitations in existing approaches, revealing the lack of consensus on what constitutes the distinct and pressing needs for people who identify under this banner. We will bring together global scholars, care practitioners, and community representatives with a stake in this area, for evidence sharing, discussion, and fostering future collaborative work.
Upon registering you may be invited, subject to available spaces, to an optional consensus exercise that will be undertaken prior to the workshop commencing. This is aimed at developing identifying a set of ‘core needs’ for older LGBTQIA+ people with the ambition of starting to develop an international framework.
ORGANISERS
Dr Richard Green, School of Health Sciences, University of Surrey
Dr Milton Crenitte, Geriatrician, University of São Paulo
Dr Sarah Combes, School of Health Sciences, University of Surrey
Dr Ashok Jammigumpula, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Organised in partnership with the Centre of Excellence on Ageing
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