A new clinic that provides affirming primary care for LGBTQ+ older adults just opened up at Jefferson, the first of its kind in the Philadelphia area. The clinic, Pride at the Jefferson Center for Healthy Aging, provides gender affirming care, HIV care and management, sexual health and wellness, advanced care planning and general geriatric medicine.
“You have organizations like SAGE [Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders] that have been focusing on that idea of inclusive care,” said Dr. Michael Danielewicz, director of Pride at the Jefferson Center for Healthy Aging. “When it comes to the clinical side and actually operationalizing it, there’s a lot of stuff out there about affirming care, but what about the competent care side?”
All the doctors at the clinic are geriatricians and base their care on the 4Ms model: what matters, medication, mentation and mobility. Mentation has to do with the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s and dementia. […]
Click here to read the full piece. This story was originally published by Philadelpha Gay News on October 25, 2023.
