Monday, June 22, 2015

CTAC At Work - Elder Services

One of the areas that CTAC is doing work in is transgender elder care. We are members of LGBT Aging Advocacy a group of state agencies, non-profits, and senior centers that are working to train nursing homes, senior centers, and home care provides on LGBT care.

We went down to New York City today to the SAGE senior center to get a better understanding of the needs of the senior LGBT community and to learn what programs work. Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) is organization that does training and works to improve the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults.

Three senior centers in Connecticut have a LGBT night one night a month on a rotating schedule and will be expanded to a total of five centers in the fall.