Updated in 2024 – This guide helps service providers learn how to ask questions about sexual orientation and gender identity to older adults in safe and respectful ways.
March 2023 | National Resource Center on LGBT Aging
Preguntas inclusivas para adultos mayores: Una guía práctica para recopilar datos sobre orientación sexual e identidad de género
El Centro Nacional de Recursos sobre el Envejecimiento LGBTQ+ de SAGE fue creado con la finalidad de responder a la cierta necesidad de información, a nivel nacional, sobre este grupo poblacional único y diverso. Una de las primeras tareas que nos propusimos, fue la realización de la presente guía (actualizada posteriormente en 2016 y 2022)…
March 2023 | SAGE National Resource Center on LGBTQ+ Aging
This handout is a supplemental update to the resource guide Strengthen Your
State and Local Aging Plan: A Practical Guide for Expanding the Inclusion of LGBT Older Adults, published by the National Resource Center on LGBT in 2017.
December 2022 | National Resource Center on LGBTQ+ Aging
Working with LGBTQ+ Individuals: A Factsheet for Crisis Hotline Responders
This research-driven factsheet aims to assist non-LGBTQ+ specific hotlines in working with LGBTQ+ individuals in a crisis response setting. It discusses tips for individual crisis responders in working with LGBTQ+ individuals and also discusses tips for crisis response organizations in supporting LGBTQ+ communities as a whole.
May 2022 | Thomas Godwin
Working with LGBTQ+ Individuals: A Brief FactSheet for Crisis Hotline Responders
This brief fact sheet aims to assist hotlines in working with LGBTQ+ individuals in a crisis response setting. It provides some context for the importance of being LGBTQ+ inclusive on hotlines and then discusses tips for crisis responders in working with LGBTQ+ individuals.
May 2022 | Thomas Godwin
Serving Diverse Elders: Strategies for Meaningful Inclusion in Service Planning and Delivery
This guide will serve as a reference for how to provide culturally affirming
and specific services that center diverse elders in every step of your planning process.
May 2020 | Asociación Nacional Pro Personas Mayores National Asian Pacific Center on Aging National Indian Council on Aging The National Caucus and Center on Black Aging SAGE National Resource Center on LGBT Aging
Inclusive Services for LGBT Older Adults: A Practical Guide to Creating Welcoming Agencies
Updated May 18, 2020 – This publication highlights provides new research, resources, practical tips and suggested actions to help create inclusive and welcoming services for LGBT older adults.
May 2020 | National Resource Center on LGBT Aging
Plan Your Way to Better Inclusion of LGBT Elders
Hear from Area Agencies on Aging who have been successful in including LGBT older adults in their programming. Topics covered include how planning has helped with LGBT outreach and services, as well as challenges and lessons learned. This webinar was hosted by n4a and SAGE’s National Resource Center on LGBT Aging with guest speakers from the Administration on Community Living, ElderSource, and Multnomah County Aging, Disability & Veterans Services.
March 2018 | SAGE's National Resource Center on LGBT Aging
This guide assists State and Local aging networks and organizations with developing and enhancing LGBT-inclusive plans and services.
July 2017 | National Resource Center on LGBT Aging
Age-Friendly Inclusive Services: A Practical Guide to Creating Welcoming LGBT Organizations
Updated in 2017 to include information and resources on caregiving, this guide is intended to help LGBT centers understand the unique challenges that LGBT people face as they get older, and provide you with some tools and strategies to ensure that LGBT older adults feel more included and safe in LGBT organizations.
June 2017 | SAGE's National Resource Center on LGBT Aging
LGBT Programming for Older Adults: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide
This guide presents a simple, concrete set of steps that can be used to create an LGBT movie viewing, with the intention of either broadening the agency services to bring in more LGBT people or as a way of introducing LGBT concepts to existing program participants.
January 2015 | SAGE's National Resource Center on LGBT Aging
Servicios Inclusivos Para Personas Mayores LGBT: Una guía práctica para crear agencias acogedoras
Esta guía se desarrolló para ayudar a los proveedores de servicios a entender las barreras especiales que enfrentan las personas mayores LGBT, así como las muchas maneras para mejorar y ampliar la continuacion de la atención médica y los servicios disponibles.
May 2014 | National Resource Center on LGBT Aging