Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 17 Issue 1

Promoting excellence in services through research, policy and practice

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Table of contents - Special Issue: In the margins or the mainstream? Future directions and innovations in providing inclusive accommodation and support for older LGBTI adults

Guest Editors: Paul Willis, Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Antony Smith

Ageing fears and concerns of gay men aged 60 and over

Peter Robinson

In light of the fact that the “baby boomer” generation is moving into early old age, the purpose of this paper is to examine what aspects of ageing and old age concerned an age…

Bonds, bridges and ties: applying social capital theory to LGBT people’s housing concerns later in life

Andrew King, Ann Cronin

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to debates about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) housing later in life by placing these in a theoretical context: social…

The significance of affinity groups and safe spaces for older lesbians and bisexual women: creating support networks and resisting heteronormativity in older age

Jill Wilkens

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of belonging to a same-sexuality social group or network for older lesbians and bisexual women.

Do the companionship and community networks of older LGBT adults compensate for weaker kinship networks?

Marcus Green

The purpose of this paper is to compare the supportive capacity of social networks of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) and heterosexual adults using data from…

Are you delivering trans positive care?

Serena Mackenzie Jones, Paul Willis

For the vast majority of cisgendered people who experience alignment between the sex they were assigned at birth, the body they have and their gender identity they are comfortable…

Learning from international experiences – developing older LGBT affirmative housing and care options in England

Paul D. S. Ross

The purpose of this paper is to formulate recommendations from international and local examples to aid the design and delivery affirmative housing and care options for older LGBT…

Cover of Quality in Ageing and Older Adults

ISSN:

1471-7794

Online date, start – end:

2000

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Fiona Poland