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"Isolation. Trauma. Returning To The closet. State’s Aging LGBTQ Population Faces Unique Challenges." California is conducting its first-ever survey of LGBTQ older adults to better understand their diverse needs across the state. The survey is meant to help state leaders and aging advocates better understand and quantify the diverse needs of LGBTQ seniors across the state, including the particular health care demands of long-term HIV survivors and the challenges some queer older adults face finding assisted living. Previous surveys in other states and communities, including a 2014 study in San Francisco, found that LGBTQ adults are confronted with unique challenges compared to their straight and cisgender peers as they age. Survey organizers hope the statewide study will help them identify trends in the LGBTQ community, but also issues that may be particular to certain groups — the needs of an older transgender woman in San Francisco may be very different from a gay Latino senior in the Central Valley, for example. “It is a unique aging experience for LGBTQIA older adults,” said Susan DeMarois, director of the California Department of Aging. “And the more we can tailor services to the unique needs of individuals, the more successful we’ll be.” https://lnkd.in/gaUWHzrV
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6moI know Arturo from perhaps twenty years ago, he is a survivor!