Abstract
to describe and analyze the scientific production on health care for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transvestites, Transsexuals, Transgenders, Intersex (LGBTI+) and other variations of gender or sexual orientation living in Nursing Homes (NHs). a scoping review, in which PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus and Virtual Health Library databases were analyzed and studies from other sources were added. After assessment by two independent reviewers, 19 publications were selected to compose the sample. the studies were grouped into two categories. NHs are configured as spaces that are not very inclusive, where LGBTI+ elders' demands are not considered due to the cis-heteronormativity in force in these places. Training and awareness of health professionals on the LGBTI+ theme is a tool that can make such spaces more inclusive for this population.
Highlights
METHODSContemporaneity highlights a situation in which internalized ideologies about old age and elders are resistant to changes[1]
The assumptions, judgments and prejudices expressed by health professionals and institutions assume that all patients seen in the health system are configured as heterosexual and cisgender subjects[35,36], or that they are devoid of sexuality[37,38]
Health professionals and service providers are beginning to encounter a generation of politically engaged LGBTI+ elders who live openly and whose lifestyles and needs have so far not been properly included in social policies
Summary
Contemporaneity highlights a situation in which internalized ideologies about old age and elders are resistant to changes[1]. One of the dilemmas is in the fusion between the sex-gender system in force in society and the oppressions that permeate it, i.e., the social stereotypes that this population faces due to sexuality, sexual orientation and gender identity[3]. Today it is observed that the proportion of people over 60 years old grows faster than that of other age groups[4]. World Population Prospects pointed out that by 2050, one in six people in the world will be over 65(5). A series of new challenges for the country arises when the subject is aging, which makes this theme more and more recurrent in debates on public health and social security policies[6]
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