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Naith Payton
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The report was based on discussions with service users, carers and dementia groups and LGBT organisations for older people. It highlights the need to be sensitive and accommodating to specific LGBT issues in patients with dementia, without allowing it to be the entire focus of care. It also points out that dementia can cause patients to become vulnerable to abuse and discrimination.
It recommends added training for care home staff and recommends all groups and individuals involved in dementia care make efforts not assume patients are heterosexual, and to understand and appreciate the unique relationships LGBT older people may have with friends, families and partners.
Professor Elizabeth Peel, who led the project, said: “Dementia affects everyone in society in one way or another. One in three of us will develop dementia by the end of our life and people live for many years with the challenges that dementia can bring.
“We know that LGBT people with dementia are especially marginalised communities, and that the issues impacting these people are under-represented in general dementia groups and charities.
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