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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.

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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
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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 in care means understanding diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, language, rights and experiences to provide respectful, inclusive and person-centred care.

LGBTQ+ inclusive care promotes dignity, equality, safety and wellbeing. It helps care professionals recognise discrimination, respect individual identities and provide appropriate support.

Trans and non-binary affirming care respects a person’s gender identity, name and pronouns. It promotes dignity, privacy, safety and person-centred support without discrimination.

LGBTQ+ dementia care should respect identity, relationships, chosen family, personal history and preferences. Care workers should avoid assumptions and provide inclusive, person-centred support.

LGBTQ+ discrimination can be challenged through respectful communication, inclusive policies, safeguarding, education and appropriate reporting. Care workers should promote equality, dignity and human rights.