Our Fay Fuller Foundation Spark Grant project, Rainbow Dog, explores the impact of unexpected changes on our emotional wellbeing. Through this project we have gathered stories from LGBTI+ elders about the impact of these events on them and/or their friends, and explored what happened as a result, what helped them, what got in the way and what could have helped them get through. We began this project when we were the Rainbow Hub Advisory Group of
COTA SA.
We developed and oversaw these projects when we were the Rainbow Hub Advisory Group of COTA SA.COTA SA.
Rainbow rights are human rights, and this toolkit, launched in June 2024, identifies how older LGBTI+ community members can understand and action their rights, as well as providing information to the people who are part of their choices, supports and care.
COTA SA partnered with the South Australian Government’s Office for Ageing Well to develop this resource and build awareness of state initiatives that safeguard the rights of older people.
The toolkit is in the form of an interactive PDF and contains information under key human rights themes including: Overcoming discrimination, Housing, Health and Plan Ahead.COTA SA.
We developed and oversaw these projects when we were the Rainbow Hub Advisory Group of COTA SA.COTA SA.
Rainbow rights are human rights, and this toolkit, launched in June 2024, identifies how older LGBTI+ community members can understand and action their rights, as well as providing information to the people who are part of their choices, supports and care.
COTA SA partnered with the South Australian Government’s Office for Ageing Well to develop this resource and build awareness of state initiatives that safeguard the rights of older people.
The toolkit is in the form of an interactive PDF and contains information under key human rights themes including: Overcoming discrimination, Housing, Health and Plan Ahead.COTA SA.
The Rainbow Horizons project was an important initiative designed to create greater cross-generational support in relation to end of life planning, care and dying for LGBTI+ people.
The project included a number of key contributors, download the list here.
● Facilitating conversations in LGBTI+ communities across generations
● Building an intergenerational compassionate community model that can be adapted, and
● Engaging with service providers.
Rainbow Horizons LGBTI+ Community Forum – Don’t leave me this way – honouring our lives in community, February 2022 Recording Need linked to Don’t leave me this way – honouring our lives in community – YouTube
The Rainbow Horizons project complements work being undertaken by organisations, including interstate and overseas.
An online toolkit ‘Taking Control: LGBTQ+ Toolkit for Palliative Care and End of Life Decisions’ was produced by ACON’s ageing initiative, the LOVE Project (Living Older Visibly and Engaged). More here: ACON – Taking Control
LGBTIQ+ Health Australia’s project to build the capacity of the palliative care sector to provide inclusive services to LGBTIQ+ people accessing palliative and end-of-life care, includes a Scoping Review. More here: Palliative Care – LGBTIQ+ Health Australia
The LGBTIQ+ Health Australia Genders, Bodies and Relationships Passport is a tool to support clear communication about sensitive information between intersex, trans and gender diverse people, and health and social care services.
Hospice UK. ‘I just want to be me’. Trans and Gender Diverse Communities. Access to and Experiences of Palliative and End of Life Care. London: Hospice UK; 2023.
Palliative Care Victoria and the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council research paper: My Choice of Care: Palliative Care From Multicultural and Multifaith LGBTIQA+ Perspectives and Experiences, 2023
Palliative Care ACT’s LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Palliative Care toolkit provides readers with some questions to ask everyone, so we can all be more inclusive, no matter who we are speaking with
A virtual exhibition bringing together LGBTQ+ multicultural people to reflect on their experiences and imaginations of ageing in Australia featuring participant photographs and words from Rainbow Horizons Trial Model Group member Jin Chen’s PhD project: Visit Imagining Futures Website
Voluntary assisted dying is now available to eligible South Australians, read COTA SA’s update including links to useful information and resources
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