112 Cultural Competency in Serving the LGBTQ Community

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Descripción de 112 Cultural Competency in Serving the LGBTQ Community

Transcript + links: DementiaSherpa.com/Episode112.
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People with Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative disorders are typically portrayed in media as elderly white people. On television, it's often a white man in the emergency department, accompanied by his wife, sometimes with a frantic son along for the ride.

When media depicts or represents only one type of person or family, we know, logically, we're missing the larger fact-based picture. It's important for providers to appreciate and understand who we're serving, which definitely includes historically marginalized communities. And that leads me to the community we're discussing today: the LGBTQ community.
I was lucky enough to land an expert guest, Jerry Mallicoat, who explains what, exactly, the terms cultural competency and cultural humility mean, and why it's vital providers consistently demonstrate both. Although Jerry's focus is on the LGBTQ community, I think the broader message is applicable to every marginalized community and person.