Victorian AIDS Council Lizzie Craig Client Care and Support Worker HIV Services vac.au

1. Victorian AIDS Council Lizzie Craig Client Care and Support Worker HIV Services www.vac.org.au

2. Remembering … “a shared narrative being witnessed by a significant other such as a friend or family member …the power in this is in the telling and the re-telling of the story. This helps people to maintain their past and present identity, in a place that it does not exist”. (based on Michael White’s Narrative Therapy)

3. What we need to know

4. How can we meet their needs?

5. Many service providers have not had education since the Grim Reaper campaign in the 1980s

6. Universal Precautions ‘Standard Precautions’

7. Tom’s story TOM’s story

8. National LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care Strategy 2012 • LGBTI people will experience equitable access to appropriate ageing and aged care services • The aged care and LGBTI sectors will be supported and resourced to proactively address the needs of older LGBTI people • Ageing and aged care services will be supported to deliver LGBTI-inclusive services • LGBTI-inclusive ageing and aged care services will be delivered by skilled and competent paid and volunteer work force • LGBTI communities, including older LGBTI people, will be actively engaged in the planning, delivery and evaluation of ageing and aged care policies, programmes and services • LGBTI people, their families and carers will be a priority for ageing and aged care research

9. It is imperative: Ageing & Aged Care Strategy 2012 It’s Imperative: Ageing & Aged Care Strategy (2012) It will be the responsibility of service providers, academics, researchers, and older adults themselves to work toward the elimination of societal views that perpetuate HIV stigma and ageism It will be the responsibility of service providers, academics, researchers, and older adults themselves to work toward the elimination of societal views that perpetuate HIV stigma and ageism. www.health.gov.au/lgbtistrategy www.health.gov.au/lgbtistrategy