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Mary's House for Older Adults is designed for residents to purposefully share spaces, responsibilities, and life experiences.
ABSTRACT Because discrimination against LGBTQ elders is so common in senior living residences, and social isolation is pervasive among elders who choose to remain at home because of it, in 2017, Mary's House for Older Adults is opening the first LGBTQ/SGL-friendly, shared communal structure in Washington, D.C. | key words: LGBTQ aging, LGBTQ senior housing, Mary's House for Older Adults
There once was an older man and his wife, who were cared for by the man's daughter. man got sick and had to move into an assisted living facility. His wife, daughter, other family members, and friends often would visit him there. The staff treated the man and his family very well, even if they had little time for giving individual attention.
Another older man had a life partner of twenty-five years. In his life, he had ministered to and lost more than 100 friends to HIV/AIDS. One day, this man fell ill and needed to be cared for outside the home. His life partner toured many senior living residences, but on one pretext or another was always...