LGBTQ+ Awareness in Care

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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.

5 Modules1 hour
£169£0
LGBTQ+ Awareness in Care

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.