National Care Forum (NCF) and the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG), working with
the National LGB&T Partnership
Dementia care and LGBT communities: A good practice paper April 2016
In their own words…
“The UK is home to an estimated 1.2 million older lesbian and gay people in the UK, yet they are an invisible population and rarely acknowledged by service providers and commissioners. This issue was summarised by the Social Care Institute for Excellence briefing, Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people2 , which describes how “commissioners and providers don’t often think about LGBT people when planning and delivering services, but this does not mean that LGBT people are not using services or do not want to use services.”
“As the Mental Health Foundation paper on dementia and rights states: “There isn’t much that we can do about dementia at the moment. But, there is a lot we can do about the environment and the experiences that people have.”
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