New PHI report outlines 47 federal priorities to improve the direct care workforce … High housing costs compound struggle for low-wage direct care workers during pandemic: NLIHC report … OSHA extends...
Actions & Transactions, April 29
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 29, 2022
Living Out LBGT+ retirement community coming to Palm Springs, CA … $14M in improvements slated for Dearborn, MI’s Allegria Village, formerly Henry Ford Village … PMB & The Springs Living break ground...
Appellate court allows case alleging anti-gay slurs and harassment to proceed
By
John O'Connor
Aug 29, 2018
A senior living community in Illinois can be sued for failing to protect a resident from anti-gay slurs and other harassment, a federal appeals court has ruled.
FDA could ease blood donation rules for gay men
Jan 27, 2023
The draft recommendations around the new policy center on “individual risk-based questions to reduce the risk of transfusion-transmitted HIV.”
Senior living community didn’t protect lesbian resident, lawsuit contends
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 28, 2016
An Illinois senior living community failed to protect a lesbian resident from the harassment, discrimination and violence that she incurred at the hands of fellow residents because of her sex and sexual...
New HHS division will allow discrimination against LGBT residents, advocates say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 19, 2018
Federal officials say a new division in the Department of Health and Human Services will protect the rights of healthcare workers who object to providing certain types of care on moral or religious grounds....
Advocacy group sues HHS for leaving LGBT elders ‘especially vulnerable’ during COVID-19 pandemic
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 20, 2020
A rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services leaves lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender older adults “especially vulnerable” as the country confronts the coronavirus pandemic,...
Business briefs for Thursday, Nov. 19
Nov 19, 2020
LGBT Elder Advocacy Group SAGE urges court to halt implementation of executive order banning speech about systemic racism, sexism and implicit bias … Medline announces plans to manufacture face masks...
Report: Some residents at risk for a new kind of religious discrimination
By
John O'Connor
Dec 18, 2017
Revised laws and policies exempting religious organizations from anti-discrimination provisions are taking a toll on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender elders, a new report claims.
One in four older transgender adults contemplated suicide in last year
Nov 21, 2023
Facing more adverse conditions has an additive effect on the risk for contemplating suicide.