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| Exploring the Care Act's potential for anti-discriminatory practice with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans older people | | Author(s) | John Crossland |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol 17, no 2, 2016 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2016 |
| Pages | pp 97-106 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/qaoa.htm |
| Keywords | Gay men ; Lesbians ; Bi-sexuals ; Transexuals ; Needs [elderly] ; Services ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | The planning and provision of care for older people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities is an increasing challenge to traditional welfare systems. This paper explores the potential of the newly implemented Care Act 2014 in England for developing an anti-discriminatory approach. It draws on existing research and conceptual literature to identify how key provisions of the new Act can be interpreted in light of current knowledge. Overall, the provisions of the Care Act lend themselves well to positive interpretation in relation to the needs of older LGBT people and their support networks. A potential tension, however, arises in the locality focus of the legislation that could constrain good practice with geographically dispersed communities. There is also a need to challenge both heteronormative and ageist assumptions that lead to older LGBT people remaining unrecognised. Applied with imagination and commitment, the provisions of the Act could enable new forms of person-centred care to emerge to support older LGBT people. Social workers are in a key position to influence how the Care Act is interpreted and applied in practice, and can act as change agents for a societal move towards older LGBT people having greater choice and control over their well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170512207 A |
| Classmark | ES6DA: ES6DB: ES6E: ES6G: IK: I: TOB: 3A:6KC |
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