Webinar on Supporting LGBTQ+ Inclusive Aging Networks

Tuesday, June 18, 2024 | 2:00-3:15 PM ET

Join the ACL-funded National Resource Center on LGBTQ+ Aging (a project of SAGE) and AgeOptions Thrive with Pride for an “office hours” webinar celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month.

The webinar will feature a discussion on LGBTQ+ inclusive programs and outreach and is intended for area agencies on aging, aging and disability resource centers, centers for independent living, ombudsman programs, Senior Medicare Patrol programs, State Health Insurance Assistance Programs, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) programs, and community centers serving older adults.

The webinar will feature automated Zoom captioning. For more information or additional accessibility requests, please contact Sherrill Wayland (she/her/they) at swayland@sageusa.org. SAGE has compiled additional resource on their LGBTQ+ Pride Month page.

The NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office will be hosting a lecture on How do we develop meaningful measures for SOGI? Asking sexual orientation and gender identity on health surveys: Findings from cognitive interviews in the United States across sexual orientations and genders, as part of our Scientific Webinar Series, with speakers Anthony Pho PhD, MPH, ANP-C, Nancy Bates, MA, and Juno Obedin-Maliver, MD, MPH, MAS. 

This event will take place on February 27, 2024, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern via Zoom Webinars, and registration is required to attend!

Questions assessing sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) are not consistently asked on U.S.-based health surveys and, as a result, sexual and gender minority (SGM) people are often invisible, obscuring insight into their health. In this webinar, we will review findings from the first phase of a multi-phase study to inform and improve SOGI demographic measurement. In this qualitative study, we sought to explore how people across different sexual orientations and genders preferred to be asked about SOGI on U.S.-based health surveys. Using in-depth cognitive interviews with 14 non-SGM (cisgender heterosexual men and women) and 30 SGM participants (cisgender sexual minority people as well as transgender and gender diverse people of any sexual orientation), we identified four major themes relating to SOGI disclosure: (1) purpose for asking, (2) context of information collection, (3) distrust of the government, and (4) fear. We will discuss our findings and frame next steps for our research agenda to improve SOGI demographic measurement. This research was funded by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities and the NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office [R21MD015878, 2020–2023].

Additional information about the event, including speaker biographies and registration, can be found on the SGMRO Scientific Webinar Series webpage. This event will be recorded and shared on the SGMRO website.

Individuals with disabilities who need Sign Language Interpreters and/or reasonable accommodation to participate in this event should contact Shyam Patel, NIH SGMRO, via e-mail at shyam.patel@nih.gov.