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Gender Identity, Sexuality, and LGBTI Perspectives in Swedish Dementia Care Policies

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This study aims to explore articulations of gender identity, sexuality, and LGBTI perspectives in national as well as local dementia care policies and guidelines in Sweden. The analysis of the documents is influenced by Bacchi's WPR-approach. The analysis illustrates how there is a general silence on gender identity, sexuality, and LGBTI perspectives in policy. LGBTI perspectives tend to be addressed separately from people with dementia and most often present as potential grounds for discrimination. LGBTI people with dementia appear to be non-existent, and gender identity and sexuality irrelevant to dementia care and person-centered approaches, and by extension irrelevant to personhood.

Source: Journal of Gerontological Social Work

DOI: 10.1080/01634372.2025.2472971

Authors: Anna Siverskog, Linn J Sandberg

Institution: Södertörn University

Language: English

Topic: LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Forskningsrådet om Hälsa, Arbetsliv och Välfärd