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HOUSING GUIDE
How Should I Read This Guide?
How
Should
I Read
This
Guide?
This guide is presented with at
least two audiences in mind
01
LGBT seniors, their
friends and family,
and fellow activists
who are searching for
LGBT-affirming senior
housing options
02
Senior housing
communities,
their staff, and
other industry
representatives in
North Texas who are
interested in learning
how to improve their
practices in LGBTcompetent care
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How Should I Read This Guide?
HOUSING GUIDE
For those searching for
LGBT-affirming senior
housing options, we’ve
presented 17 profiles of each
community that has passed
our LGBT-Friendly Senior
Housing Metric.
These features will provide
a basic description of each
community and their score
on the housing metric. For
further information about any
individual community, we
encourage you to reach out
to them using the website
and contact information
provided in each community
feature. Furthermore, there
are (best practice) features
scattered throughout this
guide focusing on LGBTcompetent care. Residents
and their advocates can learn
and promote these practices
within your own housing
communities, regardless of
whether the community is
participating in this initiative.
For example, would you like
to see LGBT programming
in your community? Our
feature provides ideas for
activities that encourage
open, informed dialogue on
issues of sexual orientation
and gender identity.
For members of the senior care
industry, and for those working
in and for senior housing
communities especially, this
guide is meant as a practical
tool for improving your care for
LGBT clients and residents, and
to provide an invitation to join
our initiative next year.
As mentioned above, there are
“Best Practice” features scattered
through this book with real
examples of policy, procedure,
programmatic, and staff training
enhancements accomplished
throughout North Texas. We will
educate you on the work of the
Coalition for Aging LGBT and
other resources available in order
to empower you to greater serve
and advocate for your LGBT
clients and residents. As the
LGBT aging population continues
to grow at a rapid pace, this kind
of education and engagement
will become essential to
provide effective care, and
to better market yourself
and your company to this
growing demographic. Further
information on this initiative,
its history, and the process a
senior housing community goes
through in order to be included
in the next Guide will be provided
in the following pages.
We are so grateful you’ve
decided to pick up our
2018/2019 North Texas LGBTFriendly Senior Housing Guide.
We hope it serves you well on
your search for a home, or to
improve your care for LGBT
seniors.
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