SOCIAL ISOLATION… if one can truly HATE a term, for me it is that one! LGBTQ older adults were already more likely to be socially isolated. That is for a number of reasons: we are less likely to have partners, we are definitely less likely to have children and grandchildren, and our children are the built-in caregivers in our society. They say 50% of us LGBTQ folk are single. So for us, sheltering in place meant more likely that you were alone, which for a lot of our community members was a real challenge.
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