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
Module 1
LGBTQ+ awareness and affirming practice
Module 2
Health and wellbeing in later life
Module 3
Personalised care and support
Module 4
Religion, spirituality, and sexuality in later life
Module 5
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Frequently Asked Questions
LGBTQ+ awareness helps care professionals provide inclusive, respectful and person-centred support while understanding identity, communication, equality and human rights in UK care settings.
This UK course covers LGBTQ+ terminology, history, legal rights, discrimination, safeguarding, dementia care, trans and non-binary care, sexuality and ageing.
Inclusive care can help create respectful, person-centred services where LGBTQ+ people feel understood, supported and safe when accessing health and social care.
Trans and non-binary affirming care respects a person’s identity, name, pronouns and individual needs while promoting dignity, inclusion and person-centred care.
This course is suitable for UK healthcare professionals, care workers and carers seeking practical knowledge of LGBTQ+ inclusion, equality, safeguarding and later-life care.



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