Resource Center and Fairness Fort Worth ask reps to protect LGBT elderly
February 25, 2014
Resource Center and Fairness Fort Worth reached out to Rep. Marc Veasey and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson to add LGBT-specific protections to Medicaid's Home and Community-Based Services programs for seniors. Veasey represents U.S. District House 33, and Johnson represents U.S. District House 30.
The National Senior Citizens Law Center issued a report in 2011 that found LGBT seniors often went back into the closet to protect themselves in healthcare facilities. Many endured verbal and phyical abuse by other residents and staff.
RC's CEO Cece Cox and FFW's President David Mack Henderson asked Veasey and Johnson to encourage HHS to amend its rules to protect LGBT seniors.