LGBTQ+ ageing

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Hafford-Letchfield, Trish; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas and Foster, Liam and Luo, Baozhen, eds. (2025) LGBTQ+ ageing. In: The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Ageing. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham. (In Press)

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Abstract

The dynamic nature of ageing reflects the shifting societal, cultural, and social meanings of what it means to age in different contexts. Global ageing is beginning to recognise the diversity of individuals and communities in later life and their unique experiences including those with diverse sexual and gender identities. Central to understanding diverse ageing is the cumulative inequality approach, which posits that inequality over the life course leads to worsened quality of life in late adulthood and how early life events shape health and social care outcomes in later life (Miller 2023). This chapter considers the growing body of international research evidence and theories on the experience of ageing in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ+) community (Pereira and Banerjee 2021) helping us to understand this better.

ORCID iDs

Hafford-Letchfield, Trish ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0105-0678; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas, Foster, Liam and Luo, Baozhen
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