LGBT End-of-Life Conversations – Interview 01of8: Project overview - with Dr. Brian de Vries

Fostering End of Life Conversations, Care and Community among LGBT Older Adults

Principal Investigators Dr. Brian de Vries and Dr. Gloria Gutman from the Gerontology Research Centre at Simon Fraser University hosted a Town Hall on 28JAN2015 at the SFU Downtown Campus. The Town Hall reported on focus group research conducted in Vancouver in August/September of 2014 highlighting some of the unique challenges of, and strategies for, end of life preparations among LGBT older adults; the British Columbia LGBT End-Of-Life Resource Inventory was also launched.

This research is funded by TVN, which is supported by the Government of Canada through the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program

see interview: An End-of-Life Conversation with Dr. Brian de Vries & Dr. Gloria Gutman
http://youtu.be/J-0VqgfwQlc

See interviews 1 – 8 with Dr. Brian de Vries:

LGBT End-of-Life Conversations – Interview 01of8: Project overview
http://youtu.be/pmOt_azD728

The impact of stigma and discrimination on LGBT aging
http://youtu.be/HyviHqAlFXw

Health consequences of stigma over the life course
http://youtu.be/uc_oSW5FtJY

Coping and the experience of LGBT
http://youtu.be/QaZBNZLuwK4

The impact of HIV/AIDS on LGBT aging
http://youtu.be/vwPEOihnxFs

The flipside of stigma, discussing resiliency in LGBT
http://youtu.be/ZZEywlbUTRk

LGBT aging and going “back into the closet”
http://youtu.be/40ZMRVd9cg8

The benefits of LGBT sensitivity training
http://youtu.be/XIebl5g1GKg

See Town Hall Meeting: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

LGBT End-of-Life Conversations website: www.sfu.ca/lgbteol/

GRC WEBSITE: http://www.sfu.ca/grc.html

[Raymond G. Adams / GRC Information Officer]

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