Understanding & celebrating the diversity of bodies, genders, sexualities and relationships of older LGBTIQ+ people.
Duration: 3 hours
About this module
Meridian delivers Silver Rainbow: LGBTIQ+ Aged Care Awareness Training to aged care services, assessment teams, frontline staff, allied health services and relevant stakeholders across the ACT and surrounding region.
This training promotes cultural competency so you can provide safe and inclusive services for older LGBTIQ+ people.
We encourage participation and discussion during the session. It is a great opportunity to ask questions in a safe learning environment.
The Silver Rainbow LGBTIQ+ Aged Care Awareness Training Project is managed by LGBTIQ+ Health Australia and is delivered collaboratively with project partners across Australia. It is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health.
Training outcomes
- Improve quality person-centred care for older LGBTIQ+ people.
- Gain confidence in the use of language and terminologies around LGBTIQ+ people and communities.
- Improved workplace inclusive practices.
Topics covered
- the diversity of human experience and evolving concepts of sex, gender and sexuality
- historical discrimination, stigma and prejudice
- heteronormativity, cisgenderism, intersectionality and the cycle of invisibility
- language and terminologies around LGBTIQ+ people and communities
- HIV
- what to consider when working with older LGTBIQ+ people
- the impacts of trauma and negative attitudes on health
- ways to enhance workplace inclusive practice and policy.
Want to get this training in your workplace? Enquire now.