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Gerard Koskovich
Editor & LAIN Staff Liaison
Jonathan Kauffman
Associate Editor
American Society on Aging
833 Market St., Suite 511
San Francisco, CA 94103
USA
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OutWord Online
October 2001
INTERNATIONAL LISTSERV:
STUDENTS, RESEARCHERS INVITED TO DISCUSS LGBT AGING
Suzy
Byrne, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland,
has established an international listserv for students, academics and researchers
working on LGBT aging issues. The English-language listserv welcomes announcements,
calls for papers, notices of conferences, and substantive discussion on research
issues and methodologies. The messages are expected to be very focused, and
the list volume consequently should be quite reasonable. For more information
or to join the listserv, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lgb-elder-studies
or contact Suzy at lgb-elder-studies-owner@yahoogroups.com.
RESOURCES ON AGING:
NEW "OUTING AGE" FACT SHEETS AVAILABLE FROM NGLTF
The Aging Initiative of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has started
turning Outing Age, its 147-page policy report on LGBT elders, into
a series of 12 fact sheets focusing on single-issue topics such as Social
Security, the Older Americans Act and LGBT elders, Medicare and Medicaid,
and basic facts about the LGBT elder population. To obtain more information
about the fact sheets or to order copies, contact Ken South, Aging Initiative
fellow, at (202) 332-6483 or ksouth@ngltf.org.
MEDIA WATCH:
HOUSING INDUSTRY TAKES NOTE OF LGBT ELDER MARKET
In the past six months, two housing-industry trade magazines in the U.S.
have published articles on the need for LGBT-friendly elder housing. Both
articles appear to be responding to publicity surrounding Arbours Development
Group's proposed 20-acre complex in Cathedral City, Calif., but the authors
also present perspectives from other housing developers, including several
LGAIN members.
- "Outing
the Issue" was the lead feature in the August 2001 issue of Nursing Homes/Long-Term
Care Management. Author Douglas Edwards touches on the struggles that
LGBT elders face when entering long-term care facilities, the lack of housing
options, the future impact of LGBT boomers on long-term care, and suggestions
on how to make current long-term care facilities more LGBT-friendly. At the
moment, the full text of the article is still posted on the website of the
journal as part of the "current issue." Visit
www.nursinghomesmagazine.com.
- In May
2001, Multifamily Executive, "a national business management magazine serving
. . . owners, managers, developers and investors of multifamily housing,"
ran a two-page article titled "Gay Living: New Senior Housing Niche." The
article discusses the current absence of housing, the growing need for LGBT-only
and LGBT-friendly elder housing, and the potential for investment. Copies
of the issue are available for $13 at www.multifamilyexecutive.com.
BOSTON LGBT AGING
PROJECT:
ADVOCATES PUSH FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN SERVICES TO ELDERS
The Greater Boston LGBT Aging Project, a group that formed a little over
a year ago, plans to release a report titled "Recommendations for Actions,
2002-2005" on October 30. The report outlines a number of action points for
state and local governments in Massachusetts to adopt so they can serve the
LGBT elder community more effectively. Points range from the seemingly modest
("Develop and implement training for the state's aging network [and the] state's
housing network staff") to the ambitious ("Create a Governor's Commission
on LGBT elders") to the visionary ("Create a 'legal partnership' status in
Massachusetts").
The LGBT Aging Project's planning committee is a multidisciplinary group
representing both aging-services agencies and LGBT community groups. Although
developed to lobby Massachusetts agencies, its action plan offers advocacy
ideas that will be widely applicable across the U.S. For more information
or a copy of the action plan, contact LGAIN member David Aronstein, president
of Stonewall Communities, a for-profit development corporation working to
build LGBT elder housing in the Boston area. David can be reached via e-mail
at aronsteind@earthlink.net.
Copyright © 2008 American Society on Aging; all rights reserved.
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