Issues and plans

What are the issues?

That’s what we want you to tell us! But we’ve already identified a number of areas of concern to older LGBT people:

• Housing and social services that listen to us
• LGBT-friendly care homes and sheltered accommodation
• Sensitive, informed treatment by GPs and hospitals
• Social and emotional needs as we age
• Awareness of our differences and need for varied options
• Recognition of our communities in their diversity.

What is Age of Diversity going to do?

To start with:

• Represent older LGBT people at national level (our founder, Lindsay River, has been hard at work promoting our views and needs).
• Have a website (you're looking at it now! - but it still needs quite a bit of work).
• Promote writing by members on older LGBT issues.

Next we aim to:

• Send out regular mailings to members.
• Have a UK-wide newsletter, online for those who have Internet access, and in the ordinary mail for those who don’t.
• Develop a constitution, recruit further management committee members, and hold the first AGM.