INSIDE THIS ISSUE
- Letter from the Chair
- GRAI Membership
- Annual Report Round-up
- Collecting Stories
- Queensland’s LGBTI Aged Care Packages
- GRAI’s Pride Events
Welcome to the PRIDE GRAI newsletter. GRAI will have quite a presence at PRIDE, putting ageing in our community on the agenda. We have three great events – two community forums and the WA premier of the LGBTI film “Gen Silent”. We will also have a stall at Fair Day, so pop past to say hi. More details are inside this newsletter: they promise to be fun and I hope that our members can support these events.
Read more at 
GRAI MATTERS – Sept 2011
In this issue:
- Letter from the Chair
- A nice glass of red…
- GRAI AGM and “Reaching Out” community forum
- Gabi Rosenstreich
- The Pinnacle Foundation
- Loneliness among older LGB adults
- Ready or not: HIV in Aged Care
- Web Resources
Welcome to the latest GRAI newsletter. Your hard working board
has been working quietly in the background ensuring that LGBTI
ageing issues are advanced. This has included a short submission to
the Department of Health and Ageing on their Accreditation
Standards for residential aged care. There was no specific mention
of sexuality orientation or gender diversity yet other minority
groups were mentioned. Again there we were not the only players
to put this view and colleagues and organizations in other states
also wrote submissions.
Board member June Lowe and I had an informative meeting with
Senator Rachel Siewert about potential lobbying strategies to
advance the core concerns of GRAI. This was interesting as Rachel is
the Green‟s spokesperson for aging issues and she was able to
provide good insight into who are some of the key players that our
organization should be meeting with. We also discussed the likely
impact of the full recognition of same sex marriage and whether
when that happens, as surely it must, that this will have large flow
on effects for other LGBTI sectors.
We have been in discussion with ACON (AIDS Council of NSW), about
allowing the use of GRAI/Curtin University Best Practice Guidelines
developed last year as part of our research project, in a current
project ACON is undertaking. They received substantial funding
from the Department of Health and Ageing to roll out an LGBTI
awareness raising training program for staff in residential aged care
providers. Initially this is being undertaken as a pilot program.
Two issues closer to Perth are the forthcoming AGM and another call
about ideas on how GRAI might facilitate a visitor program.
Read more at GRAI MATTERS June 2011
Welcome to the first issue of GRAI matters for 2011. This newsletter keeps you in touch with the activities of your GRAI Board, who work hard to ensure that the Association is well run and continuing our advocacy on LGBTI elders’ issues. We also aim to bring you the latest information about ‘gay ageing’ issues and events and hope that some of our members will get involved in some of these.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
- Productivity Commission Inquiry
- GALFA’s first grant
- Just who I am
- Forum on End of Life Planning
- ACAR includes gay packages
GRAI MATTERS March 2011
