Welcome to the September issue of the GRAI Newsletter. It brings updates on GRAI business plus some national and international news and Pride events that may be of interest.
Welcome to the July issue of our GRAI newsletter. Our biggest news is that we are ready to launch the findings of our one year Lotterywest social research grant investigating the attitudes and practices of aged care providers towards LGBT residents. With the fantastic work of our project officer Rita Freijah we are now the point of releasing the final report, best practice guidelines and a comprehensive literature review.
Welcome to our first new‐look newsletter for 2010. The newsletter contains a rundown both of GRAI activities and also broader issues on LGBTI ageing. Firstly, thank you for your continued support of GRAI.
Although GRAI is a small member‐based organisation, we always seem to have more than enough to keep us busy – and 2010 will be no different.
Here is an article from the Canberra Times on December 30, 2009 discussing the problems older gays may have with mental health issues taken from submissions to the Senate Community Affairs Committee inquiry into suicide in Australia.
GRAI also made a submission to the Senate inquiry.
Alzheimer’s Australia launched the discussion paper, ‘Dementia: Lesbians and Gay Men’ by Heather Birch on Thursday 19 November 2009 in NSW and around Australia in each capital city on other dates.
The paper was launched in NSW by the Hon. Michael Kirby, former Justice of the High Court of Australia.
GRAI’s Jude Comfort and Virginia Hales, who also works for Alzheimer’s Australia (WA), launched the paper in Perth.
