Primary Education Topic:
LGBTQ Aging
Other Education Topics:
Caregiving
When I was a teenager in the ’80s we lived with my grandmother, who had dementia. My mother was a “woman in the middle”—she had a few children at home, a parent who needed care, a full-time job, a husband and a house to take care of. My grandmother had helped to raise me so I was thankful to be able to return the love and care for her. This experience set the stage for my education and my work in the fields of aging and social work, including a doctoral dissertation looking at the caregiving and bereavement experiences of older gay men and lesbians who provided care for their partners.