LGBTQ+ Awareness in Care
Learn how to support LGBTQ+ individuals in later life with inclusive, compassionate, and respectful care. This course covers key topics like LGBTQ+ history, inclusive language, intersectionality, and safeguarding, helping you ensure dignity and respect for all.

Learning Outcomes
What you'll learn
- Awareness of LGBTQ+ history and culture
- Language, terminology, and communication skills
- Legal framework, human rights, and ethics in LGBTQ+ care
- Understanding family, kinship, and community structures
- Strategies for challenging discrimination, oppression, and violence
- Intersectionality in LGBTQ+ ageing
- Providing support and care for LGBTQ+ individuals with dementia
- Understanding the role of LGBTQ+ carers
- Trans and non-binary affirming care practices
- Safeguarding LGBTQ+ adults in later life
- Supporting sexuality and intimacy in later life
- Understanding HIV and LGBTQ+ ageing


Learning Outcomes
What you'll learn
- Awareness of LGBTQ+ history and culture
- Language, terminology, and communication skills
- Legal framework, human rights, and ethics in LGBTQ+ care
- Understanding family, kinship, and community structures
- Strategies for challenging discrimination, oppression, and violence
- Intersectionality in LGBTQ+ ageing
- Providing support and care for LGBTQ+ individuals with dementia
- Understanding the role of LGBTQ+ carers
- Trans and non-binary affirming care practices
- Safeguarding LGBTQ+ adults in later life
- Supporting sexuality and intimacy in later life
- Understanding HIV and LGBTQ+ ageing


Modules
- LGBTQ+ awareness and affirming practice
- Health and wellbeing in later life
- Personalised care and support
- Religion, spirituality, and sexuality in later life
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Frequently Asked Questions
LGBTQ+ awareness helps Australian healthcare and aged care workers provide respectful, inclusive and person-centred care that recognises diverse identities, relationships and lived experiences.
Inclusive care helps promote dignity, equality, safety and wellbeing while reducing discrimination. It supports respectful communication and person-centred care for LGBTQ+ people.
It involves respecting a person's identity, name, pronouns and preferences while providing safe, respectful and person-centred healthcare and aged care support.
Care workers can provide dementia care that respects identity, relationships, personal history and preferences while maintaining dignity, privacy, safety and emotional wellbeing.
LGBTQ+ safeguarding involves recognising and responding to discrimination, abuse, violence and neglect while protecting the rights, dignity and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ adults in care.
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