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This Section meeting is hosted by the Elder Law & SOGIC Joint Section.
| Topic: |
Why LGBT Seniors May Have Additional Risks Over The General Population Of Older Adults |
| Speaker(s): |
Gloria M. Gutman - PhD, LLD (hon.), FCAHS, CM, OBC
Vice-President, International Longevity Centre Canada
Professor/Director Emerita - Simon Fraser University Gerontology Dept.& Gerontology Research Centre |
| Time: |
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - 4:15pm - 5:30pm (Pacific Time) |
| Location: |
Webinar |
| Meal Cost: |
N/A |
| RSVP: |
Monday, November 13, 2017 by 3:00pm (Pacific Time) |
Agenda
Gloria Gutman developed the Gerontology Research Centre and Department of Gerontology at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and was director of both from 1982-2005. She is currently a Research Associate and Professor Emerita at SFU. Dr Gutman has received many awards including the prestigious Rosalie Wolf Award presented by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (2005), the Order of British Columbia (2010), an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Western Ontario (2010) and a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal presented by the Canadian Association on Gerontology (2012). She is author/editor of 22 books and monographs, the most recent (with Andrew Sixsmith), Technologies for Active Aging (Springer, 2013). Her research interests include seniors’ housing, long term care, health promotion, seniors and emergency preparedness, gerontechnology, and prevention of elder abuse and neglect.
Speaker Abstract:
Elder abuse in the LGBTQ Community
Entrenched caregiver stress and burden are often cited as key predictor variables for elder abuse. Given research indicating that fewer LGBT frail older adults than their heterosexual peers receive care from persons related by blood or marriage, does caregiver stress and burden carry lesser predictive value for this segment of the older population? This talk will review the available evidence concerning victim and perpetrator characteristics and other traditional risk factors for elder abuse to determine the extent to which they apply to the LGBT community, identify situations and factors which may be unique to this population (e.g. same sex marital partner violence; homophobia; transphobia) as well as similarities and differences within the LGBT older adult population (e.g. higher victimization rate for trans persons across the life course). The talk will address the five traditional types of elder maltreatment (physical abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, financial abuse, and neglect); it will address both community-based and institutional elder abuse, in the case of the latter, including resident-resident aggression and whether there are in fact examples of the physical or psychological “gay-bashing” in care facilities that respondents in later-life issues studies (e.g. de Vries, Gutman et al 2017) express such deep fear of experiencing.
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