Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

LGBT ageing

Index LGBT ageing

LGBT ageing addresses issues and concerns related to ageing and minority sexualities or gender identities. [1]

35 relations: Ageing, Ageism, Biphobia, Bisexuality, Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom, Community health centers in the United States, Discrimination, Gay, Gender, Gender inequality, Healthcare and the LGBT community, Heteronormativity, Heterosexism, Heterosexuality, Home care, Homophobia, Housing discrimination (United States), Intergenerationality, Intersection, Intimate relationship, Lesbian, LGBT Aging Project, LGBT retirement issues in the United States, Nursing home care, Prejudice, Retirement home, Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders, Social class, Social rejection, Social work, Supportive housing, Transgender, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Transitioning (transgender), Transphobia.

Ageing

Ageing or aging (see spelling differences) is the process of becoming older.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Ageing · See more »

Ageism

Ageism (also spelled "agism") is stereotyping of and discrimination against individuals or groups on the basis of their age.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Ageism · See more »

Biphobia

Biphobia is aversion toward bisexuality and toward bisexual people as a social group or as individuals.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Biphobia · See more »

Bisexuality

Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes alternatively termed pansexuality. The term bisexuality is mainly used in the context of human attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward both men and women, and the concept is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation along with heterosexuality and homosexuality, all of which exist on the heterosexual–homosexual continuum.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Bisexuality · See more »

Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom

A number of different systems of classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom exist.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom · See more »

Community health centers in the United States

The community health center (CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the country's health care safety net.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Community health centers in the United States · See more »

Discrimination

In human social affairs, discrimination is treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person based on the group, class, or category to which the person is perceived to belong.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Discrimination · See more »

Gay

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Gay · See more »

Gender

Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Gender · See more »

Gender inequality

Gender inequality is the idea and situation that women and men are not equal.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Gender inequality · See more »

Healthcare and the LGBT community

LGBT topics in medicine are those that relate to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people's health issues and access to health services.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Healthcare and the LGBT community · See more »

Heteronormativity

Heteronormativity is the belief that people fall into distinct and complementary genders (male and female) with natural roles in life.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Heteronormativity · See more »

Heterosexism

Heterosexism is a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and relationships.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Heterosexism · See more »

Heterosexuality

Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between persons of the opposite sex or gender.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Heterosexuality · See more »

Home care

Home care (also referred to as domiciliary care, social care, or in-home care) is supportive care provided in the home.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Home care · See more »

Homophobia

Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).

New!!: LGBT ageing and Homophobia · See more »

Housing discrimination (United States)

Housing discrimination is discrimination in which an individual or family is treated unequally when trying to buy, rent, lease, sell or finance a home based on certain characteristics, such as race, class, sex, religion, national origin, and familial status.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Housing discrimination (United States) · See more »

Intergenerationality

Intergenerationality is interaction between members of different generations.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Intergenerationality · See more »

Intersection

In mathematics, the intersection of two or more objects is another, usually "smaller" object.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Intersection · See more »

Intimate relationship

An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotional intimacy.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Intimate relationship · See more »

Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Lesbian · See more »

LGBT Aging Project

The LGBT Aging Project is a Boston-based non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender older adults have equal access to life-prolonging benefits, protection, services and institutions as heterosexual adults.

New!!: LGBT ageing and LGBT Aging Project · See more »

LGBT retirement issues in the United States

Many retirement issues for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and intersex people are unique from their non-LGBTI counterparts and these populations often have to take extra steps addressing their employment, health, legal and housing concerns to ensure their needs are met.

New!!: LGBT ageing and LGBT retirement issues in the United States · See more »

Nursing home care

Nursing homes are a type of residential care that provide around-the-clock nursing care for elderly people.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Nursing home care · See more »

Prejudice

Prejudice is an affective feeling towards a person or group member based solely on that person's group membership.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Prejudice · See more »

Retirement home

A retirement home – sometimes called an old people's home or old age home, although this term can also refer to a nursing home – is a multi-residence housing facility intended for the elderly.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Retirement home · See more »

Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders

Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) is America's oldest and largest non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults, focusing on the issue of LGBT ageing.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders · See more »

Social class

A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Social class · See more »

Social rejection

Social rejection occurs when an individual is deliberately excluded from a social relationship or social interaction.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Social rejection · See more »

Social work

Social work is an academic discipline and profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups and communities in an effort to enhance social functioning and overall well-being.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Social work · See more »

Supportive housing

Supportive housing is a combination of housing and services intended as a cost-effective way to help people live more stable, productive lives, and is an active "community services and funding" stream across the United States.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Supportive housing · See more »

Transgender

Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Transgender · See more »

Transgender Studies Quarterly

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to transgender studies emphasizing cultural studies and the humanities.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Transgender Studies Quarterly · See more »

Transitioning (transgender)

Transitioning is the process of changing one's gender presentation and/or sex characteristics to accord with one's internal sense of gender identity – the idea of what it means to be a man or a woman,Brown, M. L. & Rounsley, C. A. (1996) True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism – For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals Jossey-Bass: San Francisco or genderqueer (in-between).

New!!: LGBT ageing and Transitioning (transgender) · See more »

Transphobia

Transphobia is a range of negative attitudes, feelings or actions toward transgender or transsexual people, or toward transsexuality.

New!!: LGBT ageing and Transphobia · See more »

Redirects here:

LGBT aging.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_ageing

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »