Aging While LGBT: Unique Challenges and Inequities - U.S. News

Whether it’s transgender teens trying to find informed providers to help them navigate their life-changing physical transformations; lesbians who are less likely than others to get preventive breast-cancer care; or gay and bisexual men who had to push an indifferent health care system to respond to the early AIDS epidemic, LGBT individuals have faced many challenges in the health space. As researchers look for ways to improve LGBT health, one issue hasn’t received much attention with respect to this population, although it is an equal-opportunity process: aging.