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Landmark National Report on LGBT Aging

12/7/2011

The landmark national report, The Aging and Health Report: Disparities and Resilience among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults has been released. Caring and Aging with Pride, the first national federally-funded project to examine LGBT aging and health reveals significant health disparities impacting LGBT older adults as they age, including disability, physical and mental distress, victimization, and lack of access to supportive aging and health services. LGBT older adults are resilient: almost all engage in wellness activities and feel good about belonging to their communities. This study of 2,560 LGBT older adults age 50 to 95, from eleven community-based aging agencies across the country, sheds new light on the diversity and cumulative risks facing the aging LGBT population. Key findings of this report were released last month at a Congressional Briefing in Washington, DC. The Executive Summary and the full report can also be found at CaringAndAging.org.