Know Your Rights: Wallet Card For LGBT Older Adults and Older Adults Living with HIV

LGBT older adults and older adults living with HIV have rights:

• to be free from discrimination in accessing health care and to be treated with dignity and respect by health care and social service professionals
• to be free from discrimination, isolation, harrassment, abuse and neglect in long-term care, rehabilitation, and assisted-living facilities, and to have their privacy, relationships, gender identities and choices equally respected
• to be free from discrimination in public and private housing, including in access to housing assistance programs like Section 8 and seniors' housing programs
• to be visited by a spouse, partner or any other person of their choice in hospital and long-term care settings
• to be respected in their health care and end-of-life decisions, such as those set forth in a health care proxy, living will, poweer of attorney, funeral directive, or will