Bringing together research, policy and the voices of LGBTQ+ people with dementia, this good practice guide highlights the importance of a person-centred approach.
Care and support should recognise and validate different - and often intersectional - LGBTQ+ identities. Readers are encouraged to move away from the idea of equality as treating everyone the same, towards treating everyone as individuals.
The vast changes in the social and legal status of LGBTQ+ people through recent decades can uniquely affect their later lives. Dementia services are often under-prepared to meet their needs, and there can be prejudice and discrimination.
Creating LGBTQ+ inclusive services can be challenging. The book explains how to deal with these challenges, giving lots of practical examples. 'Food for thought' sections offer opportunities for reflection.
Becoming more informed about LGBTQ+ lives and creating services which are LGBTQ+ inclusive will improve the experiences of LGBTQ+ people living with dementia and encourage the best possible quality care.
- Dementia Care Practice
- Person-Centred Care
- About Dementia
- Dementia Care Therapies
- Pain and Dementia
- Exercise
- Leadership and organisational change
- Elderhood
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- Caregiving : Support and Guidance
- About Dementia
- Early Stage Dementia
- Communication
- Changes in behaviour
- Grief and Loss
- Relationships, Intimacy & Sexuality
- Residential Care
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- Lived experience of Dementia
- Lewy body disease
- Frontotemporal Dementia
- Younger Onset Dementia
- LGBTI and dementia
- Eating and drinking well
- Activities and Engagement
- Culture, Religion and Spirituality
- End of Life and Palliative Care
- Younger Readers
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- Audiobooks
- Australian authors
- Memoir
- Fiction
- Risk reduction - Dementia
- Worried About Your Memory?
- Reminiscence and life story work
- Exercise
- Mindfulness & meditation
- Self-care & Wellbeing
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