“Make me feel at home”: Proposals for a better service provision of care for older LGBTQI+ users based on storytelling. Together with professionals and older LGBTQI+ people, the project will create a multilingual captivating booklet with 45 testimonies of older LGBTQI+ people and professionals in 6 languages, peer-reviewed and validated. This result is a base for all following results as it will allow to detect the needs and expectations of older LGBTQI+ residents as well as professionals willing to build more inclusive services. |
Training for more inclusive care services: Training course and tools. The curricula of this course will include at least 5 modules, covering topics related with human rights; inclusion; discrimination; equality; diversity charts; health, emotional and social specific issues about LGBTQI+ older people; gender identities and sexual orientations; harassment; inclusive language; among others. One hundred professionals will be trained. |
Train the trainer: This training will be implemented after the pilot of the course for more inclusive care services (result 2) and followed by fine tuning and will for equipping the trainers with tools to replicate the training course, thus enhancing its scope and impact. 60 trainers will be trained and at least 35 replications are expected (10 of them during the project's life, reaching another 60 professionals). Methodology for awarding a Badge of Excellence for inclusive residential care of older LBGTQI+ service users. The tool can be a practically usable resource for professionals, which will support them in practically implementing strategies to make their services inclusive for LGBTQI+. The methodology will be easily transferable and expandable to other care-contexts, type of end-users or languages. Database for inclusive care: This is a publicly available and multi-lingual data base that provides a searchable repository of practices, policies, tools, and lessons learned in relation to inclusive care for older LGBTQI+s. The aim of this tool is to provide users (primarily: health professionals; care professionals; care managers; service providers; policy makers; LGBTQI+ associations etc.) practical examples complemented with suitable tools. |
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