Elders Archives - Out Alliance

SAGE: Caregiving

September 5, 2018

by Out Alliance Community Spotlight Elders Groups LGBTQ+ Living

By The Rev. David Hefling, ObJN+ photo courtesy of author I’ve been a caregiver in some form or another my entire life. As an Episcopal priest, it’s what I do for a living for nearly 300 people, on and off. Since 2010, when my husband Michael r ...

SAGE Profile: Thomas Somerville

July 11, 2018

by Out Alliance Community Spotlight Elders Featured Health Interviews LGBTQ+ Living

by Fiona Jones If you haven’t met Thomas Somerville, he wants you to know his name is spelled “S-o-m-e. There’s no u’s and no- not two m. Everyone likes to spell it like it’s Summerville- ”. Tom believes that “a good teacher finds that for everybody” a ...

SAGE: Movies at the Dryden

June 15, 2018

by Out Alliance Arts & Entertainment Elders Empty Closet Events Featured Groups LGBTQ+ Living

Do you love film? If so join SAGE at the Dryden Theater for Monday movies. That’s right – new movie every single Monday! The Dryden Theatre presents free film screenings to seniors (55+) on Monday afternoons at 1:30pm, March through October. These senior ...

SAGE Profile: Call to Connect

May 3, 2018

by Out Alliance Elders Featured Health LGBTQ+ Living Out Alliance

This month’s SAGE spotlight shines on our Call to Connect program. Call to Connect, an innovative initiative underway this spring, connects individuals who are unable to attend community events and programs with volunteers who will call them regularly to ...

INTOreports: New medicare cards will not include gender markers

April 11, 2018

by Out Alliance Elders Featured Health World & National

Source: New Medicare Cards Will No Longer Include Gender Markers Nico Lang of INTO reports on the latest news from The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which broke late yesterday: Gender markers will no longer be listed on Medicare cards in the ...

Majority of LGBT adults concerned about social support and discrimination in long-term care

March 26, 2018

by Out Alliance Elders Featured Health LGBTQ+ Living World & National

New AARP national survey finds most LGBT adults want but don’t have access to LGBT-sensitive care and services FROM AARP'S GREG PHILLIPS: When it comes to aging-related concerns, older LGBT adults worry most about having adequate family and other social ...

SAGE Pride in Aging: The Road Ahead

March 8, 2018

by Out Alliance Community Spotlight Elders Health

Pride in Aging is an innovative program presented by the Out Alliance - SAGE Rochester to help LGBTQ older adults prepare to “age in place” in their own homes for as long as possible. Not only does it provide LGBTQ seniors with education on how to obtain ...

SAGE Profile: Bob Day

February 6, 2018

by Out Alliance Elders Featured Interviews LGBTQ+ Living

by Rowan Collins Bob Day doesn’t think of himself as very remarkable. When I sat down to talk with him in early January, after one of the semi-weekly SAGE Yoga Classes, he looked somewhat bewildered that there would even be much to say. “I’m humb ...

New Report Highlights Dangers of Religious Exemption Laws for LGBT Elders

December 15, 2017

by Out Alliance Elders Featured Health

The Movement Advancement Project (MAP), the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project (PRPCP) at Columbia Law School, and SAGE, the nation’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT elders, released a new report, Dignity D ...

NY LGBT Network blasts HHS for killing proposed rule to protect LGBT seniors

October 10, 2017

by Out Alliance Elders Health

(Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017 – Woodbury, NY) - The New York LGBT Network today blasted the U.S. Health and Human Services that is eliminating a proposed rule to assure same sex spouses equal treatment in long term care facilities that receive Medicare and Medi ...