Providing Culturally Sensitive Diabetes Care and Education for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Community

The everyday food practices of community-dwelling Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) older adults.

Malnutrition during old age is a significant public health issue. Prevailing behavioral and structural senior malnutrition interventions have had marginal success, largely failing to reflect the realities of people's daily lives. This novel study employed Social Practice Theory (SPT) to explore the food practices of an under-researched, yet highly vulnerable, segment of the older adult populati...

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families.

Families headed by sexual minorities encounter unique barriers to care and health equity despite greater cultural acceptance and visibility. Empirical research suggests that children in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) families develop and function comparably to those from traditional families. In helping families, awareness of family structure is important. The health care provid...

LGBT Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Wellness for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals and Communities

Although the federal government’s prevention agenda for the Nation, Healthy People 2010 (1), lays out an action plan for improving the health of all people in the United States, it neglects specific mention of the Nation’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people (GLBT) (2). To fill this gap, the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, developed a companion document toHealthy People 2010 (3)...

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Disparities.