By Maureen Stanley In this article, we’ll discuss LGBTQ senior living options and essential questions to consider as you search for a place to spend your golden years. We’ll also detail LGBTQ-oriented retirement communities across the United States and top cities embracing LGBTQ elders. Source SeniorLiving
By Caroline Medina, Lindsay Mahowald & Rose Khattar The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis resulted in significant hardship for people across the country: Tens of millions of people lost their jobs, unemployment rates increased, and economic activity declined. To mitigate these economic impacts, federal policymakers enacted multiple relief bills, including the American Rescue Plan Act. These investments shortened the recession in the wake of the pandemic and have helped propel a historic economic recovery resulting in the most jobs...
By UBS Wealth Management The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision on same-sex marriage in 2015 made marriage equality the law of the land, giving same-sex partners spousal inheritance rights, survivor social security, tax credits, second-parent adoption rights and other benefits accrued to married couples. Yet as momentous as that decision was, “the right to get married doesn’t fix all the other problems out there,” says David Mietty, Wealth Management Consultant at UBS. He notes, individuals may still encounter workplace and housing...
Por Toño Abad & Marieta G. Gutiérrez A principios del año 2020, UGT realizó una encuesta para estudiar la discriminación de las personas en el ámbito laboral y proponer medidas para erradicar la LGTBIfobia de los entornos laborales. Partiendo de la realidad de que numerosas personas trans y LGTBI sufren discriminación en los centros de trabajo por motivos de su orientación sexual, expresión e identidad de género, que se percibe de forma variable entre las personas trans y LGTBI y quienes no...
By Andrew R. Flores, Miguel Fuentes Carreño & Ari Shaw La democracia enfrenta cada vez más amenazas a nivel mundial. La tendencia es sorprendente: 80 por ciento de la población global vive ahora en un país que experimenta alguna restricción en libertades, la proporción más alta desde 1997' Al mismo tiempo, el retroceso democrático en el mundo ha venido acompañado de un aumento en la retórica estatal sancionadora y la formulación de políticas estatales dirigidas directamente contra personas lesbianas, gays, bisexuales,...
Por Ayat Soliman, Julia Braunmiller & Phoebe Ishak La comunidad LGBTI en América Latina y el Caribe, como en muchas otras regiones, enfrenta numerosos desafíos que impiden su inclusión socioeconómica. Las personas LGBTI sufren peores resultados educativos debido a la discriminación, el acoso y, en ocasiones, la violencia en las escuelas. Fuente Banco Mundial Blogs
By Jinwen Chen, Helen McLaren, Michelle Jones & Lida Shams In gerontological research and practice, an increasing amount of attention is being paid to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) older people and how their experiences differ from their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts. However, LGBTQ older adults themselves are not a homogenous group. Moreover, as the immigrant populations in industrialized nations age, the number of LGBTQ older adults from ethnic minority backgrounds will only grow. This systematic review hence...
By National Resource Center on LGBTQ+ Aging This report highlights how state, local community organizations, funders and healthcare providers can make innovative impacts in health equity. We are living in a vastly different world than that of 2013, and this section highlights some of the present-day context within which we are doing this work. The United States is becoming older and more diverse. Yet, how we often talk about and intervene on issues related to diversity in aging continues to fall short...
By Craig Copeland (Employee Benefit Research Institute) & Lisa Greenwald (Greenwald Research) The Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS) was conducted for its 32nd year in 2022 to measure attitudes of American workers and retirees about issues surrounding retirement. For the first time, in 2022, the RCS included an oversample of LGBTQ Americans to allow for an analysis of the challenges that LGBTQ workers and retirees face in preparing for and living in retirement. Questions included in this year’s survey explore priorities...
By Liam Concannon With significant advances in equal rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens, achieved across the western world during the past few decades, one group that continues to be overlooked is LGBT elders. This article examines the unique discrimination and homophobia faced by older LGBT people living in nursing and residential care homes. It investigates ways in which these environments construct and perpetuate heteronormativity by addressing the needs of heterosexual residents, while at the same...
