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A Guide to LGBT Caregiving - Chinese Edition
This guide, written in Chinese, examines the issues that arise in LGBT caregiving, as LGBT individuals may encounter special challenges whether they are acting as caregivers or are the ones in need of care. MORE >
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A Guide to LGBT Caregiving - Russian Edition
This guide, written in Russian, examines the issues that arise in LGBT caregiving, as LGBT individuals may encounter special challenges whether they are acting as caregivers or are the ones in need of care. MORE >
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A Guide to LGBT Caregiving - Spanish Edition
Esta guía, escrita en Español, examina las situaciones que surgen a raíz del cuido a personas dentro de la comunidad LGBT. Personas dentro de dícha comunidad encuentran retos especiales ya sea fungiendo como la persona que brinda el cuido o la que lo recibe. MORE >
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Asuntos del Cuidado a Largo Plazo Para Personas LGBT
Las personas lesbianas, gay, bisexuales y transgénero (LGBT) de más edad que viven en centros de cuidado a largo plazo (y sus familiares y amigos) deben conocer sus derechos y las señales del maltrato. Este artículo delinea los tipos de discriminación a los que pueden estar sujetos las personas LGBT de más edad en centros de envejecientes, como también varias maneras de atacar el problema. MORE >
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Elder Abuse,
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En Español,
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Housing & Homelessness,
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Aging Providers,
LGBT Organizations,
LGBT Older Adults
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End of Life Challenges
A webinar produced by the Hospice Foundation of America to help providers understand the basics of end-of-life care and the LGBT community. MORE >
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End of Life Decisions,
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Medicaid & Medicare,
Mental Health,
Transgender,
Aging Providers,
LGBT Organizations
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Four Conversations Caregivers Need to Have. Now.
Do you know your loved one’s health care and financial wishes? Talk about it now, so you can protect those decisions. MORE >
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Guide to Senior Care
This publication is designed to help children in deciding how to best support their senior parents. It offers options and tools on how to best be supportive to their loved ones, while still maintaining if independence if possible. MORE >
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Hospital Visitation Directives Video
Natalie Chin from Lambda Legal Talks About Hospital Visitation Directives MORE >
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Importance of Wills
Natalie Chin from Lambda Legal Talks About Wills MORE >
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Language and LGBT Housing
What language will baby boomers use to describe aging, and how will they accept its
challenges? Rainbow Vision Santa Fe, a community offering active adult, independent,
assisted, transitional and respite living services, has been engaged in re-examining
and exploring language that adequately describes stages of aging, and the experience of their
member residents, since 2004. MORE >
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Legal Documents
What you need to put in writing to protect your financial, health care and end-of-life decisions. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults and Estate Tax and Inheritance
This issue brief details how current estate and inheritance laws fail to recognize LGBT people's relationships, contributing to LGBT older adult's financial insecurity. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults and Pensions
This brief describes how retirement pensions are routinely denied to same-sex partners, and how this lack of pension protection can devastate an LGBT partner. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults and Social Security
This brief details how LGBT adults' ineligibility for Social Security spousal benefits, survivor benefits, and death benefits significantly reduces retirement income, up to 32 percent less than their heterosexual counterparts. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults and Tax-Qualified Retirement Plans
This brief details the unequal treatment and additional tax penalties LGBT older adults face when inheriting or when they are designated as the beneficiary for a tax-qualified retirement plan. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults: Facing Legal Barriers to Taking Care of Loved Ones
This brief discusses the exclusions LGBT people face in caregiving laws, such as the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, and the barriers they may face when visiting a partner or making end-of-life or medical decisions. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults: Rethinking Aging Laws for Today's Older Adults
This brief describes how current federal and state laws are based around the assumption of marriage and thus exclude same-sex couples, widowed men and women—LGBT and heterosexual alike—and those who never married. This brief offers concrete policy recommendations that would increase the breadth of older adults protected under aging policies. MORE >
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Retirement
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LOS DOCUMENTOS LEGALES QUE TODAS LAS PERSONAS LGBT DE MÁS EDAD NECESITAN
Lo que necesitas poner por escrito para proteger tus decisiones financieras, de cuidado de la salud y de fin de la vida.
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NYS Marriage Equality: Focus on Estate Planning
Trusts and Estates attorney, Tom Sciacca, Esq., details the importance of estate planning in relation to New York State's passage of marriage equality. MORE >
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Out and Aging: The MetLife Study of Lesbian & Gay Baby Boomers
This study on LGBT Baby Boomers was conducted by MetLife Mature Market Institute in conjunction with the Lesbian and Gay Aging Issues Network (LAIN) of the American Society on Aging and Zogby International. MORE >
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Planning Tips for LGBT Individuals and Couples
Offers guidance and advice to LGBT Boomers in the areas of legacy planning,employee benefits, health care, financial and retirement planning. MORE >
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Planning with Purpose: Legal Basics for LGBT Elders
Provides basic information about select areas of the law that are important to LGBT elders, especially individuals and couples who are age 55 and over. MORE >
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Still Out, Still Aging
Expanding on insights gained from its 2006 award-winning Out and Aging study conducted in partnership with the American Society on Aging's LGBT Aging Issues Network (LAIN), "Still Out, Still Aging" provides both an update and broader scope in looking at the LGBT population in comparison to the general population. MORE >
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Take the Power: Tools for Life and Financial Planning
Lambda Legal has prepared this toolkit, with information on creating wills, protecting your medical and end-of-life decisions, and more, so that you can take the power and create a more secure future for yourself and your family. MORE >
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Tom Sciacca, Esq. Explains the Importance of Marriage Equality in NYS
Tom Sciacca, Trusts and Estates attorney, discusses the importance of marriage equality in New York State pertaining to end-of-life decisions and estate planning. MORE >
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Tom Sciacca, Esq. on Advance Directives
Tom Sciacca, Trusts and Estates attorney, discusses the importance of Advance Directives to the LGBT community. MORE >
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Financial Security,
Health & Wellness,
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Toma el control: Herramientas de planificación legal y financiera
Lambda Legal ha preparado esta guía para ayudarte a tomar el control, de manera que puedas crear un futuro más seguro para ti y tu familia. MORE >
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