Re-Cap: Trans Issues at the Aging in America Conference
http://transgenderequality.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/re-cap-trans-issues-at-the-aging-in-american-conference/I was pleased to be able to attend and present last week at Aging in America, the nation's largest multi-disciplinary conference on aging issues, which this year was held in the nation's capital. I attended a number of great sessions on topics such as cultural competence in aging services, the experiences of transgender people at mid-life, improving responses to issues of intimacy and sexuality in long-term care settings, and how the Affordable Care Act benefits multicultural elders. There was an incredible track of LGBT aging programming at this year's conference, with more than a dozen LGBT-focused workshops.
I was privileged to join Karen Fredriksen-Golden of the University of Washington School of Social Work and Loree Cook-Daniels of FORGE Transgender Aging Network for a panel on what some of the most recent transgender survey research can tell us about trans older adults. In addition to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, we discussed the recent Aging and Health Report on LGBT older adults, surveys by FORGE on sexuality and sexual violence among older adults, and research documented in the new book The Lives of Transgender People.
