Conversations with GIA: Training the Aging Services Field to Provide LGBT Culturally Competent Care
The next Conversations with GIA, Training the Aging Services Field to Provide LGBT Culturally Competent Care, is scheduled for Tuesday, January 21, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern (11:00 a.m. Pacific). Michael Adams, Executive Director, and Hilary Meyer, Director of National Programs, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), will discuss how SAGE has helped aging services providers enhance their cultural competence in working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults. They will also review SAGE’s innovative plans to leverage available resources to scale up the training and consumer education program to have broad, culture-changing impact.
The next Conversations with GIA, Training the Aging Services Field to Provide LGBT Culturally Competent Care, is scheduled for Tuesday, January 21, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern (11:00 a.m. Pacific). Michael Adams, Executive Director, and Hilary Meyer, Director of National Programs, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), will discuss how SAGE has helped aging services providers enhance their cultural competence in working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults. They will also review SAGE’s innovative plans to leverage available resources to scale up the training and consumer education program to have broad, culture-changing impact.
LGBT older adults, fearful of being discriminated against, do not access aging services at the same rate as their heterosexual and non-transgender peers. And when they do, they often do not disclose their sexual orientation and/or transgender status to their providers, all of which leads to incomplete care and health disparities. SAGE, through its National Resource Center on LGBT Aging, has developed a national training effort to enhance providers’ cultural competence in working with LGBT populations and to disseminate information to consumers.
Click here to register for the January 21 webinar. This free program is open to all grantmakers. Please note: CEUs are not available for this session.
