{"id":23000,"date":"2019-05-10T11:32:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T10:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lancashirecarelibraryblog.com\/?p=23000"},"modified":"2019-05-10T11:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T10:32:28","slug":"raising-the-equality-flag-health-inequalities-among-older-lgbt-people-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2019\/05\/10\/raising-the-equality-flag-health-inequalities-among-older-lgbt-people-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising the equality flag: Health inequalities among older LGBT people in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>International Longevity Centre UK, May 2019<\/strong><br \/>\nThis report highlights new findings from a recent project to explore the discrepancies in health outcomes experienced by older LGBT people.\u00a0 The research reveals that a lifetime of prejudice and stigma is leading to worse physical and mental health, poorer access to health and social care, as well as greater levels of social isolation and loneliness among older LGBT people.\u00a0 The report calls for action to address health inequalities for older LGBT people through improving the inclusivity of mainstream health and care provision, strengthening the training of health and care staff, and enhancing data collection around older LGBT people and their health and care needs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ilcuk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ILC-Raising-the-equality-flag.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to view the full report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Longevity Centre UK, May 2019 This report highlights new findings from a recent project to explore the discrepancies in health outcomes experienced by older LGBT people.\u00a0 The research reveals that a lifetime of prejudice and stigma is leading to worse physical and mental health, poorer access to health and social care, as well as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2019\/05\/10\/raising-the-equality-flag-health-inequalities-among-older-lgbt-people-in-the-uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raising the equality flag: Health inequalities among older LGBT people in the UK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81,102,128,162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equality-diversity","category-health-care","category-lgbt","category-older-people"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}