The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of tailoring health-care services to support LGBTQ+ people in later life
. One comment from an older trans women stays with me: “I would much rather kill myself than go in a care home. I have written ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ on the wall above my bed so the ambulance people know what I want.”
As the size of the ageing population grows, so does its diversity. In the United Kingdom, for example, more than 120,000 people over the age of 65 identify as LGBTQ+.
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