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Local Senior Care Providers working together to provide advocacy and quality of care for the LGBTQ+ seniors of Washington State.

Through collaboration between community organizations and businesses, we help connect LGBTQ+ seniors to the resources they need to make informed decisions.

NW LGBTQ Seniors
Welcoming Meetings

Our meetings are open to any and all who share our goals. Please see our events calendar for our next scheduled monthly meeting, with guest speakers discussing a wide array of topics focusing on LGBTQ+ elders today and tomorrow.

Please come and learn more about how you can positively create welcoming and safe spaces for members of the LGBTQ+ Aging Community. All are Welcome!

We meet in person every month, but not December.

Meetings and Events

Ecosystem /ˈēkōˌsistəm/

A biological community of interacting organisms; a complex network or interconnected system

Open House /oh-puhn hous/

A loosely organized social event – arrive when you’d like; no structured happenings

Recompose Ecosystem Open House
Thursday, Sept 18th, 6 – 8pm
4 S. Idaho St, Seattle, WA 98134

Leaves and vegetation decomposing on a layer of soil

Recompose has designed a paradigm-shifting process for environmental death care that mimics the earth’s natural cycles. Please join local arts, culture, queer-led, female-founded, and business-for-good communities on Thursday, Sept 18, from 6 to 8 pm to:

Honor natural resources • Nurture radical imagination • Support shared growth.

Celebrate life with Champagne toasts (or non-alcoholic bubbles) and cookies from Grand Central Bakery. Two hand-poked tattoo artists will be offering small branch tattoos, and artist Sarah Kavage will share a look back at 2015’s Duwamish Revisited, a year-long public art project featuring more than 100 artists that fostered dialogue and community activism along the Duwamish River, just 500 feet from the Recompose facility.

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTQ+) seniors have unique needs and face unique challenges. A perceived lack of resources and understanding among Senior Care Providers can be very frustrating for LGBTQ+ seniors, in many cases forcing them to conceal who they are, often leading to a decrease in their quality of life.

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Principles of Our Coalition

Our Vision: To provide education and support for the LGBTQ+ senior community when navigating through the health care continuum, while ensuring that their dignity and individual choices are respected and honored.

Educating

Providing education through action by being positive role models and contributing members of the community at large.

Supporting

Connecting LGBTQ+ seniors to the resources they need to make informed decisions.

Respecting

Honoring them as the unique individuals that they are while also respecting their family of choice.

Collaborating

Working with their family of choice and their support network to facilitate their ability to actively participate in the decision making.

Empowering

Supporting their-self actualization by reinforcing the belief that every human being has the inherent right to be whom and what they want to be.

Advocating

Under the umbrella of our coalition, we want to provide resources, community outreach and volunteer opportunities for our members.

Working Together

The Network is an informal coalition of Senior Care Providers working together to provide advocacy and quality of care for the LGBTQ+ seniors of Washington State, based on collaboration between community organizations and businesses. Our members offer their expertise in fields that include but are not limited to:

  • Attorneys
  • Community Services
  • Fiduciaries
  • Financial Planning
  • Government Agencies
  • Home Care Agencies
  • Home Health Agencies
  • Housing Providers
  • Hospice Agencies
  • Information Services
  • Insurance Providers
  • Moving Services
  • Pharmacy
  • Senior Centers