Making your State Plan on Aging LGBTQ+ and HIV+ Inclusive: New Older Americans Act & ACL Guidelines

ACL built on these requirements when it released Guidance for Developing State Plans on Aging on August 5, 2021. ACL’s guidance details how and why ACL believes that LGBTQ+ older people and older people living with HIV are greatest social needs populations.

There is new OAA language and ACL guidance on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) and HIV+ inclusion in your State Plan. This fact sheet reviews the new guidance.