The criteria is spelled out in the new and groundbreaking Long-Term Care Equality Index 2023, a report from SAGE (Advocacy & Services for LGBTQ+ Elders) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) modeled after HRC’s Healthcare Equality Index for health care facilities. It’s the first validated survey on LGBTQ+ inclusion in long-term care and senior housing communities.
“The goal is to ensure that LGBTQ older adults can access welcoming and respectful care wherever they live. In the United States, that’s just not the case now,” SAGE CEO Michael Adams told me at the American Society on Aging‘s On Aging 2023 conference in Atlanta in March.
Click here to read the full piece. This story was originally published by Next Avenue on May 25, 2023.
