10:00 AM Pacific / 11:00 AM Mountain / 12:00 PM Central / 1:00 PM Eastern
Experts will share information on healthy sexuality and aging from three different perspectives, including in a continuum of care environment, a community-based organization and cutting edge research on LGBT older adult sexuality.
Participants in this web seminar will:
Presenters:
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Hilary Meyer is the director of the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging, which is a project of SAGE along with 14 national partners. Hilary’s work includes supervising a national LGBT aging cultural competency training initiative, maintaining a resources clearinghouse website and providing technical assistance on matters involving LGBT aging. Hilary is a member of ASA’s LAIN Leadership Council. |
Robin Dessel is an administrative director, educator, public speaker, older adult rights advocate and clinician specializing in areas of dementia care and sexual rights; co-author of sexual rights multi-media including nation’s first policy affirming older adults’ sexual rights in health care settings, entitled “Resident Rights to Intimacy and Sexual Expression”; featured in educational film teaching staff to support older adult sexuality with objectivity and respect, entitled “Freedom of Sexual Expression: Dementia and Resident Rights in Long Term Care Facilities”; and partnered with the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Center for Elder Abuse Prevention in authoring a Diagnostic Guideline to aid practitioners in assessing sexual consent in older adults with dementia, entitled “Older Adult Sexuality: Intimacy or Abuse?” | |
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