Title:رسیدگی به نیازهای سالمندان LGBT

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قسمتي از متن فيلم: Hello everyone and welcome to the webcast my name is christine durcy and i’m the executive director of ap ohio and vice chair of the northernism division i will be the moderator for today’s webcast today friday august 2nd we will hear the presentation addressing the needs of lgbt seniors for technical help during today’s

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We are recording today’s webcast and it will be available on our youtube channel later today just search planning webcast on youtube a pdf of the powerpoint will also be available upon request i now like to turn it over to our presenters good afternoon or good morning everyone

My name is tony licola i’m the gaelit vice chair and i’m also a senior planner with the hillsborough county city county planning commission in tampa florida just a brief introduction before we move on with the presentation and um the the presenters today i just want to go through a few slides with you

Um let me get this going there we go today in the us there are about 40 million americans over the age of 65. it’s about 13 of the u.s population however by 2030 only about 15 years from now that population is expected to balloon to about 72 million people

Essentially one in every five americans over the age of 65. this is a huge demographic change coming our way and most communities are ill-prepared of those 40 million americans over the age of 65 somewhere between 1.5 million and 3 million are gay lesbian or transgender but unfortunately we don’t

Have good statistics many older americans are simply not out and the us census doesn’t count does not collect data on sexual orientation this number could be as high as 4 million but given the numbers of lgbt seniors today and given the current environment where more lgbt people are coming out

Many who work in the field of lgbt aging field remember could be well over 70 or well over 7 million by the year 2030. today’s out seniors are baby boomers reaching retirement age and they’re the first out generation of elders in our history many have spent years fighting for

Equality and acceptance and they’re not prepared to go back in the closet the biggest concern now is not trying to conform to an unwelcoming society but rather who will care for them as they grow older they’re less likely to ever have been married or have children leaving them without close

Relatives to take care of them as they grow older so what are some of the challenges of the aging of the aging lgbt community well basic healthcare is a significant problem eighty percent of long-term care for older people is provided by family members such as spouses children or other relatives

Lgbt seniors are only about half as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to have a close family member to rely on for help also lgbt seniors rely heavily on services of professional healthcare providers providers such as doctors pharmacists or other hospital and nursing home staff these are people who are often

Uncomfortable with or could be hostile toward lgbt elders caregiving issues come up when lgbt partners aren’t recognized under the law often uh healthy partners don’t have the ability to take care of family they don’t have the ability to take family medical leave or make medical or funeral decisions for their sick

Partners unless of course they put in specific legal arrangements uh before unfortunately many people don’t make such arrangements either because they can’t afford the legal costs because like so many other americans they think they could just put it off for another day many lgbt seniors fear harassment and

Hostility from health care providers or at senior centers services might be available to help them as they grow older however they tend to avoid settings where they could be forced back in their closet or fear being who they are financial insecurity is another major challenge poverty rates among elder lesbian and

Gay couples are 9.1 percent and 4.9 respectively compared to 4.6 among their elder heterosexual counterparts several factors contribute to higher poverty rates including employment discrimination barriers in social security medicaid pension plans retirement plans and estate tax and inheritance laws that deny same-sex couples the key retirement benefits of

Afford it to the broader population in addition state laws can shut lgbt partners out of an inheritance or could require them to pay steep taxes on an estate that a surviving heterosexual spouse would inherit tax free the surviving partner or spouse is left with far less economic stability than before the partner died

Beyond state laws family members of the deceased will often lay claim over an estate leaving a long-term partner with little ability to inherit what might be rightfully voters social social isolation is another challenge lgbt people are twice as likely to be single and to live alone

And three to four times as likely to be childless often they’re less likely to feel unwelcome in places where many older people socialize such as senior centers volunteer centers and places of worship research and sage’s experience show that harmful effects of this include depression delayed care seeking poor nutrition and premature mortality

Few aging service providers planned for or outreach to the lgbt community and fewer prepared to address the insensitivity and the discrimination aimed at lgbt elders here are uh presenters for today we have britta larson she’s the director of senior services for the center on halsted in chicago serena worthington director

Of community advocacy and capacity building with sage which is services and advocacy for glbtc elders and finally we’ll have joy silver president and ceo of rainbow vision properties senior living silver senior living and grio circle incorporated board member so i’m going to go ahead and pass it over to brita

Okay great tony thanks for the nice introduction to the topic and i’m really excited to have so many folks on the call today i’m really excited to have so much interest in the topic um so before i go too far um i will just introduce myself i’m richa larson director of senior services

Here at center on halstead and a little bit more about my agency um so center on halsted the mission here is to advance community and secure the health and well-being of the lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer people of chicagoland okay and center and health is the most comprehensive community center of its

Kind in the midwest some of our programs include hiv testing and prevention mental health program anti-violence program community and cultural program we have a very large youth program serving young adults who identify primarily as lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer between the ages of 13 and 24

And of course then we also have our senior program and our senior program serves about 500 people over the course of the year the majority of whom identify as lgbtq and we offer a wide variety of recreational social educational activities wellness programs home sharing program friendly visitor program just to name a few

And really what i’m here to talk to you about today is a really exciting development um in 2014 um uh i said john halstead in partnership with heartland alliance will open the first lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer friendly affordable housing development in the midwest and who is heartland alliance our partners

In this project they are the leading anti-poverty organization in the midwest each year heartland alliance helps nearly one million people around the world who are homeless living in poverty or seeking safety heartland housing which is heartland alliance’s housing division is a leader in developing and managing affordable housing in the midwest

Heartland housing has developed and managed uh more than 1700 affordable homes across the chicago region and the midwest and so really to be honest they’re the perfect partners in this project in this endeavor um so how this how will this project work and what will it look like

Um heartland housing is the developer and of the project and they will be the property manager center and halstead will provide the programs and services to the residents of the building um and i would say this partnership is really key to the success of the development of the

Housing and and the long-term success once it’s built um heartland housing is really bringing the expertise um in securing the financing for this type of affordable housing and and their expertise as property managers centron hallstead is bringing our expertise working with lgbt older adults and and the lgbt community um so really

It um i can’t say speak highly enough of the projects and um the importance of having a key partner in this project the project will follow all fair housing laws which is important because to mention and to clarify and to emphasize because when we say it’s lgbtq-friendly

We also need to make sure we state that everyone is welcome to apply as long as they meet the age criteria for the project and the financial criteria as this is affordable housing but we welcome all sexual orientations to apply all gender identities to apply we’re not discriminating in any way and

We of course are following all fair housing laws for this project residents must be 55 and over and must meet financial criteria to qualify for affordable housing i wanted to just take a quick minute to talk about some some key points that were really important to see seeing this project

To completion and and i’m getting it up off the ground and i i would say it’s incredibly important to buy in from key stakeholders including elected officials and i would also recommend any other project like this across the country my experience is that there really needs to be a champion for the project

Especially an elected official who can really move it forward and help help kind of get key stakeholders behind the project and i would also want to highlight the long-term commitment to project development so centron halstead we have been talking about this development and planning for it and and trying to secure

Financing for it for about 10 years now so it is certainly a long-term endeavor i would say the first few years were just communicating their vision for the housing articulating the need getting support again from those elected officials and key stakeholders and of course now we’re rapidly moving

Forward at a quick pace but it certainly is not something that will happen overnight and the project will be a mix of setting that 79 units a mix of studios in one bedroom apartments and the newly constructed building will be connected to historic town hall police station the historic town hall police station

Will be remodeled and will serve as community space for the residents of the building um and uh the former police station will also become the new home of our senior programs at center on halstead and the senior housing that we’re building is directly next door to center on halstead

There will be retail space on the first floor and construction will include green design features and aim for leadership and energy and environmental design lead silver certification construction has begun it began about last last month and the project is expected to be completed in the fall of 2014.

I have a little rendering of of the building so to the left you see the historic town hall police station and to the right you see the new six-story structure that we will be constructing with a retail space on the first floor and then to the far right of the photo

Is where center and hall set is located a series of five charrettes were conducted in 2013 with a diverse group of lgbtq older adults and through the charettes lgbtq older adults were able to help inform the design process for the interior apartment space and community space as well as provide

Input for the programs and services offered to the residents this this series of characters they were time consuming and a little expensive to pull everyone together we had designers in the room planners kind of pulling together this group of seniors but i would highly recommend this this model for other

Senior housing developments it was wonderful to hear from the seniors themselves how they envisioned using the space both their interior apartment as well as the common areas of the building to really get their feedback the seniors felt very vested in the project they were excited to have

The architects and and folks in the room eager to hear from them and and learn from them and i really feel that the project ultimately will be best served having gone through this series of five designed charettes early on in the process so i was very very excited

With that part of the process project financing this is about a 26 million dollar project funded through a combination of city state and federal funds low income housing tax credits city of chicago home investment partnership program equity from the illinois affordable housing tax credit historic tax credits and energy efficient grant from the

Illinois department of commerce and economic opportunity are some of the funding streams and as you can see it’s a really complex funding stream to fund this type of project and heartland alliance they really managed securing the financing for the project additionally rental subsidies will be offered from the chicago housing authority

And that means that residents will pay 30 percent of their income towards rent and this is my final slide and um i wanted to kind of pose the question will this project meet the housing needs of the lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer community older adult community in the chicagoland area and

Um absolutely um i would say that research has shown that chicago land lgbtq seniors have identified housing as one of the their greatest unmet needs um and anecdotally we’ve seen a lot of interest in this senior housing that we’re building from our lgbtq older adults there are approximately 40 000 lgbtq

Older adults in the chicagoland area and again this this housing that we’re building will have 79 units so just anecdotally and also with research i would say that this housing by no means will meet the full need or the full demand that we’re experiencing with the lgbtq older adults

And and to be honest i don’t i don’t know if we could ever build enough lgbtq friendly senior housing to really meet the full need and the demand that we’re seeing here so i’m a big proponent in addition to construction constructing lgbtq affirming housing it’s also important to promote cultural competency

And advocacy on behalf of lgbtq older adults to improve the quality of services provided to this community by mainstream service providers so how can we engage in other senior living communities that are already belts and already in existence how can we engage them to become more culturally competent more lgbtq friendly

Places for our seniors to live and we have a long way to go but and you know agencies are requesting training through the national resource center on lgbt aging trying to learn more about how they can make their residents more lgbt friendly and so i think that that’s an important component

Um as as as we as we build lgbt friendly housing i think it’s it’s an important component um to really meet the full demand and full need that our seniors have okay all right at this time i’m going to turn over the presentation to serena worthington hi everybody

My name is serena worthington and as tony said i’m the director of community advocacy and capacity building for sage thank you very much brita for passing it over and i want to thank the american planning association game lesbian pine division for inviting me and specifically tony for making sure that

We were all together for this i’m pleased to be presenting with all of you um a couple of three things today i’ll talk a little bit about sage as an organization a little bit about the national landscape of lgbt aging and i’m going to focus a lot on a case study of

Two sets of fictional couples and how they’re impacted by um issues related to aging so i’ll get started by saying that i’m sage is a 35 year old grassroots organization it was founded by two social workers who felt like they saw their friends and colleagues fall off the map as they aged

And they very much wanted to have a successful infrastructure to address their needs so they built stage with a plus years um the program’s grown quite a bit we offer programs in midtown manhattan and throughout all five boroughs in midtown we operate the nation’s first senior center that’s full-time dedicated

To lgbt older adults it has a fiber center a nutrition meal program and a dizzying array of programs and services that go on all day we serve dinner every night and have myriad programs and educational opportunities throughout the day we also offer a number of those same programs throughout the city

We have a specific uh cited piece in harlem and then we also work with community partners in the boroughs um i also run in my role at sage a network of 24 affiliates in 18 states in the district of columbia and we’ll talk a little bit more about those momentarily

That’s a quick picture of what they look like um these affiliates are standalone they’re they’re like chapters that might be the best way to describe them so we don’t manage them or influence them financially that they are mission aligned with our with our organization they can be all volunteered

Or housed in a larger organization um like the program at center and health that is housed in the lgbt senior center our lgbt community center could also be in a senior center or mainstream aging agency a lot of the affiliates have tiny staff maybe one to three sometimes this small budget

That’s generally the trend there’s a few with larger budgets most of the programming if not all is free a few of the affiliates are membership-based organizations and they offer a similar array of programs to britain’s programming we also operate the national research center on lgbt aging which is the nation’s first technical

Assistance resource center for lgbt older adults its mission is to improve the quality of service and support for lgbt older adults that was established in 2010 through a federal grant from the u.s department of health and human services and it provides training technical assistance and educational resources to aging providers

Lgbt organizations lgbt older adults and anyone else who’s interested it’s led by stage in partnership with 14 leading organizations from around the country as part of their training effort they have a core group of more than 30 trainers who offer a cultural competency curriculum across the country to either lgbt or aging

Organizations the curriculum is a minimum of four hours and they’ve offered it to nearly 000 folks across the country in the two years that they’ve been offering it and a lot of the people who take this are aging providers and lgbt organizations but anyone can request it

So i’m going to move on to talking about this case study and this is compiled from the report you see in front of you improving the lives of lgbt older adults and joint projects with sage and the movement advancement project this draws on research um from a variety of sources if you’re

Interested in those citations if you check out either one of these websites you can see them um and we’re going to talk about the challenges faced by lgbt elders for successful aging um there’s three main areas the effects of stigma past and present this is a generation that conveys a time

In which the language of sexuality was absent and heavily stigmatized homosexuality was the more common term and it was criminalized deemed a mental illness we also saw a variety of police charges in courts and in state law laws over the years what this me what this means is that

People lived through these changes have the accumulated effects on their mental health and many are likely to remain closeted as as tony said um aging is difficult without some some form of support and this this um effective stigma can lead to higher rates of morbidity mortality infection depression and decline um so

Lgbt older adults do tend to rely on families of choice for care and support um they’re more likely to be single and less likely to have children and as i said more likely to rely on partners and many of their partners lack relationship recognition currently we have 13 states with relationship

Recognition because we added two this week um but that leaves three seven states without relationship recognition sage’s recommendation is that we design the safety nets that are designed around marriage could they currently exclude lgbt couples be altered to be more inclusive and we also note that there’s a overall

Failure to address stigma and discrimination in the formal services and supports for lgbt older adults the according to freedom to marry if 30 of the u.s population lives in a state that has relationship recognition or honors out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples but that means 70 of the population that

Would like to be married cannot be married and this is important as we talk about the federal protections offered by marriage so yeah i mentioned the the barriers to successful aging in terms of financial security we also see barriers with good health and health care and social and community support

I hope you’re not seeing me move that control around i’m not going to go into these statistics because tony reviewed these but um you’ll know that there are definite income disparities there’s other financial disparities that i’ll go into a little bit in terms of medicaid um safe advocates for spousal impoverishment protections

For forestry and sex couples currently those are offered to opposite sex couples and are designed to keep them out of poverty so an lgbt survivor would not be able to keep their home their substantial assets or livable income currently retiree health benefits are not extended to same-sex couples the federal law allows

An employer to provide health insurance to a heterosexual spouse of an employer or a retiree is a tax-free benefit but for same-sex couples the lgbt retiree pays income taxes on that benefit and this taxation can cost about a thousand dollars in a year there’s also an impact on tax qualified retirement plans and

Iras under current federal law same-sex couples have to draw down the amount after the original account holder dies and the lower amounts are drawn out by survivors and again those are in states without relationship recognition pensions over about about half the employers do not offer benefits to um surviving partners deaths and benefits

Um are changing um which we’re really excited about and i think we’ll learn more about that as as we we see the effects of the overturn of the defense of marriage act and inherent laws um in terms of inheritance laws same-sex couples need specific and expensive legal arrangements a will

Uh revocable living trust a portable will financial power of attorney et cetera state laws step in in some cases and most states don’t recognize inheritance law inherent tense laws as they apply to same-sex couples tony talked a little bit about the health disparities and i’m going to go

Through this pretty quickly because i don’t need too much of my time um but they’re often overlooked and ignore family families of choice or in some cases not given legal recognition healthcare environments can be inhospitable to lgbt elders nursing homes in some cases could can fail to protect lgbt elders

And visitation policies and decision-making laws specifically include families of choice but sometimes the institution will choose to ignore those there are some statistics on folks who have deleted delayed care or cited that they are neglected by caregivers some of the barriers to social support are ones you can imagine people might

Access the mainstream senior center not feel welcome they might feel isolated from the broader community they may have in sufficient opportunities to contribute enough you know volunteers under civic engagement and they might just be discriminated in housing one cheering thing i’ll notice that in our in a recent study the researchers found that

Area agencies on aging which operate our senior centers around the country are very interested in being more welcoming to lgbt elders at the rates just down the stream they’re a little bit tentative but these are really sharing sharing slides to me that’s a little bit about the study that drew these conclusions

And there’s a little bit more about that their agencies on aging have offered some type of training are willing to offer training and interestingly enough the agencies that have some training have more inquiries related to people being lgbt so when we tile this together we’ll get

To this case study this looks at george and maria again these are fictional couples and ellen and rita george and maria are opposite sex couples ellen and rita same-sex couple they start out with the exact same circumstances they have good health in retirement they have a house fifty

Thousand dollar nest egg and a pension george and maria have a combined social security income of fourteen hundred thirty one dollars a month this is a nice healthy amount elenin reedus is less because they earned less over their lifetime to contribute to social security george and maria enjoy a financial

Security joint survivor pension from george’s pension and ellen and later do not have that same option george and maria tend to be more engaged in community and volunteerism and ellen and rita and their experience have been unwelcome at their senior center george and rita both fall ill george and maria experience

Knowledgeable friendly providers ellen and rita find that their health providers are hostile when allen visits maria gets to make the critical care decisions for george and in the case of ellen and rita she’s challenged for her decision-making authority even though that’s the mandate to um hospitals and federally funded nursing

Homes and assisted living environments george was released and received home-based community-based services we just released that she’s afraid to request those services because she doesn’t want best folks in her home and she’s unsupported as a caregiver george enters the nursing home five years later medicaid allows

Allows memory to keep the home and their savings and income under the spouse and publishment protections i mentioned earlier rita answers enters a nursing home five years later two years later because she does not have the same protections she loses her their neck bag and raised income to medicaid

So these two stories of aging progress george and rita pass maria inherits george’s this fagan income she gets george’s pensions she gets uh survivor benefits so it’s higher than her own would have been she makes for burial decisions and is not challenged she gets a lot of emotional support from the community

For ellen and rita the nasdaq is already gone so ellen does not have that um it pays for rita’s long-term care as a result of this lack of spousal and protection she loses her home she doesn’t have access to read this pension and can’t apply for social security survivor benefit

Um so and she chooses to stay in the community and be closeted with no emotional support um and go on food stamps and ssi so the bottom line these people have really different outcomes based on the various circumstances many of these are going to change under the

The many many sweeping changes that are happening as a result of doma and prop 8 being struck down but in the 37 states without this recognition it’s so important to think about these states ensuring that the state’s withdrawal relationship recognition and ensuring that folks get federal benefits equally and um

In case without relationship or recognition we propose that um permanent partners be included in social security medicaid family medical leave hospital visitation and medical decision making and again that’s just enforcing an existing law and inheritance laws and state taxes and i’m going to skip through to the end

In the interest of time thanks to everybody for this presentation day and i look i’m going to turn it over to july hi i’m julie silver and um i’m going to talk about some of the things that have were not discussed by my co-presenters here i really want to thank them because they

They make a great case particularly was impressed with britta as she spoke about this is not this these projects are not for the faint-hearted they do take a number of years rainbow vision took about nine years to get out of the ground before we were able to put together so

You really have to hang in there and of course a lot of the development uh concepts that she talked about were critical including getting uh key stakeholders in uh among the politicians and people who were in the cities to be behind you anyway many times i’m asked why do lgbts

Uh q i and a as we’re now known seniors need a place of their own so i show you this photo these are a group of men who um i’m now working with out in palm springs area who would like to have assisted living and memory care facility of their own

So i think it becomes clear as our culture demands its own fulfillment rainbow vision started in 1997 at a time when there were 70 projects on the table and rainbow vision santa fe independent assisted living and condo community was the only one that got out of the ground and supplied and provided

Assisted living and today i think fountain grove is attempting to do that with a model called the ccrc model albeit with a higher price tag there’s an entry fee there and rainbow vision was dedicated to not having an entry fee we’re also going to be doing projects in

Palm springs which i’m still working with now but it would be under that was going to be under the rainbow vision name and bay area and we have a partner up in vancouver oh dear okay here we go okay some of the critical things that have not been talked about but have been

Set up are the aging in the record moments as to what happens when care is needed we have been hearing about the affordability process we’ve heard that lgbt people may be isolated but there are some other things that we need to put our eye to now and that is

The expectation that the care will be manageable uh there’s a there’s a lot of talk about aging in place which is possible up into a point but right now memory care and alzheimer’s and dementia are very critical they’re very critical to how we’re going to deal with that and really looking at

Looking at it straight ahead there’s also a measurement of progress against what we ideologically think is going to happen to us when we are aging and i’m going to go into that a little bit more as we go on one of the other things becomes a pro

Problematic are lgb and t it’s almost as if all of these these genders and these orientations all are under one flag and we all get along fine and actually um there are many uh issues and challenges between all the parties so not necessarily would a community meeting the needs of lgbt

Necessarily be in the same facility or in the same residential community again i want to talk go back to something that bruta was talking about and that is teaming with others to accomplish similar goals and forming a working entity and sage certainly has done a lot of partnership

With their programmatic aspects with the knowledge that they have over the long period of time that they’ve been in business and i’ve been providing services rainbow vision myself i was part of a sage program back in 97 that was looking at doing uh potentially doing some housing with residential services that’s how

I was part of that committee subcommittee for senior housing this is rainbow vision in santa fe if you can see uh right here where my pointers pointing the second floor was where we were providing assisted living services this is the assisted living um of rainbow and santa fe this was this

Is the living room uh community space i show you the bathrooms because they’re all adl you can’t see it here but you can wheel a wheelchair into that community dining area this is strictly for assisted living by the way assisted living unit and the hallways with the requisite size of the hallways

To be able to provide our setting our um you can see our design elements are quite different probably than many of the places that you may have observed if you’ve ever gone to an assisted living community we also have the challenges on the economic downturn on missing living residential communities across the country

And i talk about that because uh recently there was um this tuesday was talked about assisted living as provided by emeritus and it was quite frightening to see um what the problems were that that surfaced for emeritus but i do want to say that the provider challenge to provide people in assisted living

Most of the people in assisted living i’d say at least half when you go from level three up are basically have problems with memory care and alzheimer’s and dementia um it becomes a bigger issue when you’re looking at a family of choice there’s a few things to look at

Basically the baby boomer population is faced with the challenges of aging one of the greatest challenges for the lgbt population that we found was a realistic definition for the concept of old what is old and when might you need additional help in general we don’t have the familial decision influencers which are usually

Known as the oldest daughter caretaker in the mainstream and so to face the obstacle as we know it for those who provide these services is called i’m not ready for that yet who is it that’s going to be our advocate and let us know when it’s time to stop driving the car

Usually the oldest daughter caretaker will say to mom maybe you want to stop driving or you need to you need to stop driving now and so we don’t have the influencers that help us know when care is necessary and then of course we have the challenge of financial because being prepared

Financially by planning for retirement for retirement is an issue in general for the baby boomer generation mainly because all of our assets were put into if we own homes were put into the ownership of those homes and then the stock market and the real estate market fell and there hadn’t been any time

For fixed income people to make back the money that they lost during that time period so we have a lot to face with upcoming the upcoming aging rainbow vision also provided 33 affordable apartments within our community as a requirement of the city of santa fe i do want to

Let people know that that was going on so i go to you who are all participating in this and i say here’s to you that’s my my two business partners on the days that well we put the shovel in the ground and that’s what we were doing so i want to

Thank you all for having me here and also for allowing you to be part of this fabulous presentation thanks so much i will turn this over to tony if i can find oops here’s the contact information on the screen if you’d like to get in touch with any of the speakers today

Everyone’s listed i’ll also provide contact information for the gays and lesbians and planning division during the question and answer period so just keep checking your screens and that will pop up as well we have a website through apa and there are a couple of facebook pages so feel free to visit our facebook

Pages and join we also encourage you to join the division um you’ll you’ll find a variety of information resources where we can put you in contact with people who might be able to provide additional resources to you so with that i’m going to turn it back over to our webcast coordinator and

We’ll go forward with the question and answer session thanks everybody okay we do have a bank of questions that we will go over now um the hold on let me get my screen working there we go okay the first two questions are actually for brita the first one is related to the housing

Project you talked about and the requirement for having 55 year old residents does this mean that both partners must be 55 at the time of move-in brita that’s a great question and thank you to the audience member who posed the question yes my understanding is that this is

Affordable senior housing and that all residents must be 55 or over the vast majority of the seniors that we are serving are single and yes of course it is somewhat common within the gay community for men to date younger men i don’t anticipate this being too significant of an issue

And i’ll just while we’re talking about the age i’ll just mention that the fact that the age is 55 and over is really important because most affordable senior housing especially in chicago but across the nation the ages is much higher 62 is the typical age for affordable senior housing and

For all the reasons sort of mentioned in the presentation today lgbtq older adults are much more likely to start to have challenges at a younger age compared to their heterosexual counterparts so health challenges financial challenges isolation issues come at a younger age and so our um age for our programs at

Sunshine hall said for senior programs is 55 and so we’re really excited that the housing next door will mirror that age and will be a little bit younger than many other senior living properties affordable senior living communities in our area and the next question thank you the next question is how many

Of the 79 units are receiving rental subsidies from the chicago housing authority great that’s a great question so we were able to secure um 100 of the building we’ll have rental subsidies offered so all 7 79 units i believe will have the subsidy attached and so residents

Will be paying 30 of their income great thank you um this next question is actually directed to joy joy how is aging more drastic for the lgbt community i know i’m not saying it’s more drastic necessarily but um what what the issue becomes is that there are

At the time when care is needed usually in the mainstream families who have children grandchildren they can be advocates for their loved one or their their senior and what happens among lgbt people in and i’m making a sweeping generalization about what happens is that we’re talking about

Families of choice that tend to be our peers so that our chosen family tends to be people who are our own age and who are also in need of similar services and so we may have exactly the same issues as we go forward and therefore cannot serve

As an influencer as to when those critical decisions need to be made so we don’t have an advocate and we don’t have a decision influencer great thank you um the next question is for tony um has sage begun to identify affordable housing developers that are interested in glbt projects

I think serena might be better suited to answer that question because she works with sage directly serena hi serena thank you for the question um we actually um just did with with 100 people on the scholarship we just did a um podcast um in partnership with enterprise community services in which

We gathered all the folks in the country that are working on lgbt affordable housing projects and i make that distinction because there are definitely market rate projects around the country um there are projects going on simultaneously in chicago philadelphia the philadelphia project is going to be very near their lgbt center

And the sage program in philadelphia is going to run their programs and services that is affordable housing with tax credits there’s also a project it will be the second project for gay and lesbian helder housing and that is in los angeles gay and lesbian elder housing is the nation’s first developer of

Affordable housing they built a project called triangle square it’s a 103 units i believe um and they are building their second unit called the argyle which will be about 40 units and that construction is underway there there’s also a um a project that is very is already taking

Applications in the twin cities area that is a rental affordable rental it is a joint project with a faith community and a housing developer and it’s very interesting they’re going to have a um light a i can’t remember what it’s called it’s their lgbt archive is also going to be

Housed there which i think is a really interesting component um and then there is also a project in san francisco with um the lgbt social service provider called open house their project is called 55 laguna and it’s uh on a multi-use site um so they’re partnering with the city with a university extension

With a for-profit developer and themselves and they are nearing breaking ground they have been in process for a very very long time they had a number of stops and starts and they have players from the most dedicated people um that kept this going and kept it alive um and that will be

Affordable housing for lgbt older adults along with mainstream housing and a concentration of services for lgbt older adults if you’re interested in more about that you can listen to the podcast at enterprise community services webinar archive and also at stageusa.org where we have an archive of all of our podcasts thank you

Thank you okay um the next question i think anyone could could answer this one it says i noticed there wasn’t any transportation issue mentioned are there any examples of transportation for lgbt seniors as they travel to and from places such as the affordable lgbt housing establishment in the midwest chicago example

Okay i’ll take that since it referenced chicago so the development the senior housing development is going to be next door to central halstead which is in the heart of lakeview in chicago and the vast majority of the seniors that we serve do not own a car for the most part but

Public transportation in this area is excellent we are very close to both boss transportation as well as um train uh transportation and so for the most part um transportation is not um a significant challenge in this neighborhood actually it’s the opposite challenge and that parking if you do own a vehicle is difficult

And can be expensive centron halstead does not have dedicated parking spots for our patrons of the building the senior housing next door will have a number of spots for the residents of the building but street parking is really difficult because we are two blocks from wrigley field and during cubs games it’s

It’s difficult um so we are a very urban setting here and public transportation is excellent and i certainly am aware of the fact that that’s not the case for other folks across the country but here our biggest challenge is more or less parking thanks thanks um before we go on there is one

Question um there have been um several other abbreviations used besides lgbt i remember one of the speakers using q for queer could someone define all of these terms we have lesbian gay bisexual transgender lgbtq for rainbow vision event quakers they were the likely mainstream people to move into

Rainbow vision by the way but i think it usually means questioning or queer i intersex and a allies thank you okay let’s see since we’re talking about terminology um i do a lot of cultural competency trainings and whenever i have the chance i’d like to talk a little bit further

About the word queer especially in the context that on today’s call we’re talking about older adults and for many older adults that we serve here the word queer has a very negative connotation and they really don’t don’t prefer that word and can be offended when that word is used

Um but for the broader community the broader lgbt community there is definitely a movement happening um where the word queer has been reclaimed and and many folks especially younger generations prefer the word queer and self-identify is queer and so in the past year central hall said added the

Word queer to our mission statement and we certainly have a number of folks especially younger folks who who identify as queer however adding the word queer to our mission statement really upset and offended some of our seniors um you know so words mean different things to different people and um so it’s just

A word of caution around the word queer especially in regards to working with with older adults but you know it’s always okay to ask someone how they identify um and you know you know there’s no kind of word that necessarily is it works for everyone because words are mean different things

To different people and change over time so it’s always okay to just ask someone how they prefer to be identified thanks thank you okay i i think one of our speakers actually wanted to see if someone could go back and talk about ambulating services i i wanted to speak a little bit about

Ambulation challenges actually and i think that when we’re talking about a 55 plus community which is what has been discussed generally what we find is that 55 usually means average age of 63. it’s very short time period from there to um having ambulating and walking challenges their steps kings um

Wheelchairs and so it’s critical to use what’s called universal design to make sure that things can be accessed but using public transportation becomes a very difficult thing to do when walking and ambulating is an issue and that’s and this happens very quickly as we get into

Past the age of 70 75 80 some people who have ms are already starting out with those issues i think we have to start looking at transportation in a different way some cities have senior ride a senior ride service and of course communities like rainbow vision had their own van

For these very items okay i think we’re gonna switch pres the presentation screen over there we go serena hi everybody this is serena for as a follow-up for the folks who are interested in the projects around the country i’m throwing up some really quick pictures you probably won’t be

Able to read them very well um in this format but i wanted to give you a quick highlight the first image you’ll see is 55 laguna in san francisco that’s 110 unit multi-use site project construction begins soon next up is the argyle the second project by gain lesbian elder housing and that’s 40

Units their existing building triangle square is fixtured below and again i think that’s 103 or 110 units on the top left you’ll see a rendering of the john c anderson apartments that’s 56 units that they’ve already had their topping off ceremony and what i didn’t mention earlier is

Mary’s house this is a house conversion project that will render nine units of affordable housing that will be marketed for the african-american lgbt community spirit on lake is the project that i mentioned in minneapolis minnesota i love them because their rendering and their finished building look identical i’ve never seen anything like that

Maybe you all have in planning um and that’s going to be 46 units and then the last rendering is the one you saw earlier from brita of town hall at center for the nexus center on halsted if folks are interested in learning more about these from this article it is from

Our newsletter called sage matters which you can find online and i’ll get you the cover right here um it’s our summer 2013 issue and it just came out thank you thanks serena okay another question what are the typical financial requirements to live in the lgbt project profiled

Do they require a one-time purchase or rent et cetera how does health care insurance medicare et cetera factor in the way this is serena the way i understand it these are subsidized units so that people will pay a portion of their income based on their average median in the

Average median income from the neighborhood so like for triangle square they have units that are 30 percent of ami 20 of ami 10 of ami et cetera and the the majority of these other projects are are some kind of tax credit subsidized housing in terms of if they’re if

Medicare or medicaid or health insurance pay for these i would guess not joy’s project is a little bit different so i will mute and let her address that uh yeah i was just thinking that and thanks for for knowing that serena um we’re talking mainly about affordable

Housing that might have a case manager as part of their social service program but definitely does not do not supply care most communities that are care communities residential and care communities will accept long-term care insurance and medicare for rehab and and also for our short-term companionship and uh

Help with activities of daily living in the care communities today the one of the the way that we were modeled after is that you can do um uh you pay for your basic rent and then as as much as your levels of care determine how much time you need from caretakers is how

Your finances are set up so there’s no there’s no buy-in although there are those communities who do require an upfront uh buying fee or a a fee before you can get in and that would be your ccrc model which is the kind of community that fountain grove is out in santa rosa

Great thank you you mentioned the cost of legal arrangements in addition to affordable housing do these programs offer access to free or low-cost legal assistance for aging lgbtq persons to arrange their wills transfer of assets or properties etc to cover surviving partners this is brita i’ll i’ll jump in

And the panel did a great job of articulating how expensive those documents can be um but how important and necessary they are so center on halsted does have a legal clinic and um the legal clinic um is kind of very basic in the services offered it’s basically a free consultation with with

An attorney if someone needs additional documents drawn up and additional services we do our best to connect them with lgbt affirming attorneys who are knowledgeable in that area in that arena and may be offer able to offer a reduced fee um but i i i don’t believe that we’re able to offer that

Free of charge to any of our clients including our seniors and the residents potential residents next door thanks to serena i’ll add that our affiliates and other lgbt aging organizations across the country offer similar services pro bono legal clinics and they also many of them participate in a national initiative called day of

Decision which is a day in april where many many attorneys donate time to help people complete some of their basic documents this would be a living will or durable power return for health care or about durable power returning for finances um in some cases folks might get pro bono services for more advanced

Documents i do know that a number of our affiliates and other lgbt aging organizations like the lgbt team project in boston and open house in san francisco the lag and lesbian center and los angeles also workshops and estate planning um and end-of-life planning but again to to get your own personal

Documents then you would need to see a professional and well in most cases pay for it thank you um the next question do fair housing rules allow other protected classes to obtain units in lgbt housing you can take that um this is joy silver and i just want to let people know of

Course i am available for consultation particularly on the provision of assisted living services to our population um the fair housing does allow anyone uh regardless of orientation and gender and class and race and nationality to obtain units certainly that’s the federal law and many states have those same laws to back it up

What rainbow vision particularly did was primarily market to the lgbt community and then we had a good deal of mainstream we had mainstream people who came to rainbow vision as i said it turned out they were quakers who seemed to be very progressive but those mainstream people who moved into

Our community knew that that’s what the community was primarily dom dominated was dominant in and they were fabulous people and in fact were actually more prepared for aging than the lgbt community in general so i do want to mention that great thanks um we have one last

Question and this question i believe is going to be for brita what did you discover in the design charrettes specific design features and our programs and services regarding the lgbtq community sure we definitely had a few specific trends emerge from the design tourettes which really helped change the initial design of the building

And one specific feedback was that the residents really wanted to be able to the seniors wanted to be able to potentially entertain in their apartment and in a studio and a good portion of the building is going to be studios it was sort of not designed in a way that the bedroom area

Was very separate from from the living room area the kitchen area and so the designers the architects did some redesign of the of the space especially the studios to try to carve out a little more separate of an area for the sleeping quarters as best that can be done in a studio setting

Also the residents really the seniors potential residents of the new building really indicated that they wanted a lot of community space and they wanted a multi-functional community space so for example a common area could be a living room it could also show movies it could also have a

Couple computers for folks to use computers it could also be a place where programming could happen so multi-functional multi-use space was was key the res the seniors also expressed wanting to make sure the building was safe and secure to the greatest extent possible and so we we have um key card access

Planned so that the building will be secure and cameras will be installed again for security measures and you know the building is located in a very um kind of high density neighborhood in chicago there are a number of bars up and down the street again we’re two blocks from

Wrigley field so they they did express absolutely wanted to make sure it was a safe and secure building um and along the idea of entertaining and wanting to entertain and have company and have guests um that that um it can be somewhat limited in an apartment especially a studio

Or even a one bedroom and so we will have uh in in the building a state-of-the-art kitchen and dining area for i believe 10 to 12 people so for a larger dinner party a resident could reserve that shared kitchen and that shared dining room to entertain and to have a dinner party

Which again i think is a really nice compliment to do to the housing development and will really make it feel like home thanks could you also talk briefly on whether or not there are wait lists and if so if there’s a lottery system or how well that works

Yes so as i mentioned my presentation we are anticipating um a very great demand and a lot of interest in this housing um so our partners in the in the project heartland alliance um they will be managing the lease process and the application process we anticipate that the application

Process will start a few months before the building is scheduled to open so we’re over a year away from building openings so we are not picking applications just yet although we are keeping track of folks who are calling who are expressing interest in learning more and wanting to know when the

Application process is ready to go and ultimately and it will look like a lottery system just to make sure um we’re being fair in the selection process so it will be a random lottery once we have the pool of applicants in the event that we have more applicants

And we do have apartments available and we’re giving a lot of thought and consideration to how we can best support the seniors who are not selected to live in the building through the lottery system we many of our seniors are really really really excited about this project and

There is the potential for them to be very disheartened or disappointed if they’re not able to to get into the building so we’re trying to put together resources for them and be able to be a support to them um if they’re not able to to live in this building thanks

Thanks bretta and i think um joy has a comment to add on yeah i did i did want to add something um i do want to say that rainbow vision found one of the differences uh uh was parallel to what brutal found and so what we built was it seemed to be more

Important to the active adults that we had living in the community they weren’t so interested in a golf course but they sure were interested in having a cabaret and so we had our own little we had our own nightclub and we had drag shows there anybody who was out

In rainbow vision probably got a chance to see some of those direct shows so that was quite different than your mainstream community the other thing i think that as far as the waiting list goes what’s critical about this is remember we’re talking about the resident the resident a residential community an affordable

Units we’re not talking about when care is needed and oftentimes people would be on our waiting list and by the time we were ready to accept them they had already become their acuity level had gone so high that they were assessed at a different level than when they

First signed up so i think it’s wise to wait and serene is also mentioning here that uh the um the the the los angeles triangle square has a long wait list so as many affordable residences as we have we certainly we certainly could afford to see more of them be built so thanks

There’s another question that just came in in addition to the application process do you do a visit to their current home i’m repeating i’m going to repeat the question in addition to the application process do you do a site visit to their current home uh-oh have we lost sound can we sound as

Off i’m not sure why hold on can we hear me now oh good okay we can hear me now phew all right um the the final question is after review that was odd after reviewing the application process along with the application process do you do a site visit to their current home

This is i’ll touch on it briefly in the serena then you can add to my remark so um we have not started the application process yet um but my understanding is that as we get closer to the application process there will be some type of an assessment that we conduct on the person

Um to make sure that they qualify um for this housing as there is no real care component um to it um whether we actually do a site visit at their home that’s not something i i can speak to i don’t think that’s something that we’re planning um but i i don’t have the

Specific information at this time this is serena what i was going to add is that in the projects that are being built as i mentioned triangle squares the only completed one the one in twin cities is not taking applications and in both cases i don’t believe they do a site visit

To the current home but is part of the assessment that might take place in the home um but i don’t i haven’t heard that it’s a required element i may be wrong but and nobody’s mentioned it yet but that’s my understanding okay great thank you everybody um i i

Guess can everyone hear me still yes okay good all right great okay well i think that’s um i think that’s everything for today i want to thank everyone for joining um us britta joy serena tony thank you for speaking today this has been a really great webcast and we’ve had a

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