Rainbow Inclusive Aged Care Project - Southern Cross University

The project aims to improve care for gender and sexually diverse people in residential aged care.

It will follow an Appreciative Inquiry approach and identify what enables and constrains inclusive care. Co-creation, co-design, and co-research methods with LGBTQ+ people as active participants will shape the project and its outcomes.

It will include a national survey of residential aged care workers and field research in two project sites (Queensland and Western Australia), involving two aged care providers and up to 19 residential aged care homes. An inclusive model of care will be co-created with LGBTQ+ people, and then implemented and evaluated in partner homes.

Lived Experience Advisory Group

We are currently calling for expressions of interest for LGBTQ+ older people to join our Lived Experience Advisory Group.

For more information

Key outcomes

Improved care

Improved quality of care provided to gender and sexually diverse people living in residential aged care

Increased safety

Increased safety for all people from gender and sexually diverse communities in visiting, living or working in residential aged care

Enhanced knowledge

Enhanced knowledge of what enables and constrains inclusive care for gender and sexually diverse people in residential aged care

Inclusive model

A co-designed rainbow-inclusive model of care for residential aged care, with supporting guidelines and resources

Feature article

Study targets inclusive care for LGBTQ+ people

A five-year multi-stakeholder collaboration is co-designing a best-practice inclusive model of residential aged care for LGBTQ+ older people to roll out nationally. The Southern Cross University-led study aims to investigate how Australia’s aged care sector can enhance its service delivery to cover a wider demographic of gender and sexual diversity.

Read article

Any questions?

meaghan.vosz@scu.edu.au

About

Our team

Media and resources