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Abstract: 

It was less than two decades ago that the first workshop on the abuse of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) elders was scheduled at a national elder abuse conference. Shortly before the conference convened, one of the co-organizers was ordered to step down from the panel by her boss, a state APS director. The national aging organization that employed the other co-organizer decided that she could stay on the panel, but she needed to register for the conference as an individual and not mention her employer while she was there. She endured numerous awkward conversations in which shocked colleagues, noticing her affiliation-less nametag, asked when and why she had left her employer of many years. Today, when more than half of all states issue same-sex marriage licenses, when Time magazine features an openly transgender woman on its cover with the headline, “The Transgender Tipping Point: America’s Next Civil Rights Frontier,” and when the federally funded National Resource Center on LGBT Aging is now in its fourth year, the resources available to combat elder abuse among LGBT elder abuse are far richer and deeper. This article surveys some of the best and most useful resources, featuring materials available from the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging (NRCLA).

Keywords: National Resource Center on LGBT Aging

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