Rendering visible the previously invisible in health care: the ageing LGBTI communities

Sexuality and the Human Rights of Persons With Dementia

“…32 Providers have duties to support and facilitate existing intimate relationships by recognizing the needs of couples 21 and this extends to promotion of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Plus inclusive practices. 36 Equally important, but far more complex, is support (when required) for new intimate relationships in care settings, which require nuanced, individualized approaches depending on each couple and the presence of existing partners. Many of these cases are complicated by existing family relationships involving adult children and blended families, sometimes acting out former conflicts.…”

IPA and WPA-SOAP joint statement on the rights of older persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities

“…As such, older people may experience multiple jeopardies of discrimination and stigma conferred by age itself (ageism) and having a mental disorder ("mentalism") (WHO-WPA, 2002;Chang et al, 2020;Peisah et al, 2012Peisah et al, , 2019, with marginalized groups such as Lesbian, Gay, Transexual, Bisexual, Intersex (Peisah et al, 2018), and indigenous elders (Viscogliosi et al, 2020) faring worst. "Segregation" in residential care, whereby people living with dementia or other mental health conditions or psychosocial disabilities are congregated together, confined within the care home, and segregated from other residents and the community at large, can exacerbate this discrimination and societal abandonment (Steele et al, 2019).…”

Human Rights and Empowerment in Aged Care: Restraint, Consent and Dying with Dignity

“…Older people, people living with dementia, and their families and supporters have the right to meaningfully participate not only in personal health-care decision making such as medication use, but also in other prime areas pertinent to their human rights including the right to a good death [13,14], security of tenure [15], equity issues in relation to LGBTQ+ elders [16], and the harms associated with hospital admission for people with dementia [17,18]. They can only do so if they are informed.…”