Help Define the Way FOR THE GREATER GOOD

Date/Time: December 5, 12:00 - 1:00 PM (virtual)

Aging & Stigma: DC Regulation and Complementary Tools to Promote LQBTQ+  - Inclusive Communities (Eventbrite link coming soon!)

Objectives:

• Identify health disparities that LGBTQ+ people may develop across the lifespan and explain potential barriers that LGBTQ+ people may face to traditional aging supports, including the long-term care system itself
• Define the Long-Term Care Equality Index and apply its guidance for facilities working to foster a community that is incusive of LGBTQ+ residents
• Describe how the LEI criteria relate to DC’s Care for LGBTQ Seniors & Seniors with HIV Amendment Act of 2020

Speaker: 

Ames Simmons

Ames Simmons is a queer white transgender man who holds a senior fellowship at Duke University School of Law and lectures at George Washington University’s graduate program in LGBT Health Policy & Practice. His previous roles include policy director at National Center for Transgender Equality, policy director at Equality North Carolina, and seventeen years as assistant general counsel at a healthcare company assisting uninsured patients with Medicaid. Ames attended Agnes Scott College, Emory University Law School, and George Washington University’s Health Policy & Practice graduate certificate program. His work is grounded in community-based anti-racism, anti-violence, and anti-poverty efforts to achieve justice for transgender people and collective liberation.