LGBT Patients Seek Open Arms in Long-Term Care

“LGBT people experience real discrimination in nursing homes and long-term care settings,” said Jamison Green, PhD, a transgender author and activist in Vancouver, WA. Dr. Green will turn 72 this year, and the expensive prospect of long-term care is on his mind. “I’m winging it like most Americans do,” he said. But his concerns are wider than those of the typical aging person. “I worry that I will be denied my hormonal support, that I will be ridiculed and neglected,” Dr. Green told Caring.