To access care, many older LGBTQIA+ adults go back into closet
Some older adults fear they won't receive the same level of care if service providers know they are gay, and it's driving them to secrecy.
Source: coloradosun.com
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Many LGBTQ Seniors Don't Get The Health And End-Of-Life Care They Need. Some Coloradans Are Working To Change That
Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Esther Lucero holds a picture of her late wife Cathy in Denver’s Cheeseman Park on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. The two were married in the park three years ago. On one of her many days in the hospital in 2017, Cathy asked her partner not to tell the nursing staff they were married. She’d been diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia, and Cathy feared the care she got would suffer if the staff knew she was a lesbian. “She says, ‘Don't tell the nurses that we're married,’” said Cathy’s wife, Esther Lucero. “And I said, ‘Why?’ And she says, ‘Because the...
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