The senior-living and affordable-housing worlds are preparing for a "silver tsunami." Where will all the Baby Boomers live out their golden years? Will more age in place than in previous generations? The coming decades will see major transitions in elder-care as this particularly large generation retires en masse.
For LGBTQ Boomers, many of whom lived in the cultural shadows from the 1950s until relatively recently, housing and support needs are likely to be different still.
Even though about half of the country now supports gay marriage, most older LGBTQ Americans can remember at time when being gay or transgender was punishable by arrest and violence, not to mention familial rejection. Many of them will also have experienced housing or employment discrimination. These experiences can leave LGBTQ elders even more vulnerable as they begin to require a supportive living environment.
[For more of this story, written by Shauna Miller, go to http://www.citylab.com/housing...of-their-own/385321/]
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