About the report
“He went back into the closet”: Older LGBTI people’s interactions with health and social care in the Nordic countries
The Nordic Council of Ministers’ co-operation body Nordic Information on Gender (NIKK), located at the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research at the University of Gothenburg, carried out this project. The report is in two parts: A research overview that describes the existing research on the living conditions of older LGBTI people and their encounters with health and social care in the Nordic countries, and a knowledge inventory that describes how the LGBTI perspective is taken into account in courses and study programmes for professions that encounter this target group. The report also includes recommendations for health and social care, for professional qualification study programmes, for CPD, and for continued research.
The research overview was written by Anna Siverskog, PhD, project researcher at the School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University, and senior lecturer at the School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University. The knowledge inventory was written by Janne Bromseth, PhD, researcher at Eastern Norway Research Institute, Innland Norway University of Applied Sciences.
