One Facility's Experience Using the Community Readiness Model to Guide Services for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults
✍ Scribed by Laurie A. Carlson; Kelly S. Harper
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 136 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1524-6817
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✦ Synopsis
The Community Readiness Model (CRM) is a change model that measures the readiness of communities/institutions to meet the needs of diverse clientele and to guide strategy development. This article presents model implementation with one long-term care facility interested in enhancing their ability to serve gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender older adults.
Today, there is an estimated 1 to 3 million gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) individuals over the age of 65 in the United States (Grant, 2010). This number may reach 4 million by the year 2030, and it seems that our social institutions might be ill-prepared to provide the necessary services to this aging population (Grant, 2010). Historians generally regard the Stonewall Riot in Greenwich Village on June 29, 1969, as the start of the gay liberation movement when gay rights became an emergent social issue in the United States. Many modern day older adults spent their young adulthood before the Stonewall years and carry with them internalized shame and fear because, during their formative years, homosexuality was highly criminalized, pathologized, and stigmatized (Grossman, D 'Augelli, & Connell, 2003;Hollibaugh, 2004). In addition, many GLBT older adults continue to report trepidation and fear about their treatment within societal institutions, particularly retirement facilities and long-term care facilities (Brotman,