Day Centre for LGBT Elders

The first full-time day centre in the US for elderly LGBT people is scheduled to open in New York City in January. And what with all of us getting older, every day, we think that is to be appluaded. .

The Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) was awarded the contract for the new project. The SAGE Centre will be based in Manhattan but offer a "comprehensive array of services and support" to LGBT elders throughout all five boroughs of New York.

The SAGE Senior Director of Programming, Catherine Thurston, told the Huffington Post:  ‘For elderly people who are also LGBT, going to traditional senior centres can pose a variety of unique challenges…Many LGBT elderly say they feel they’ve encountered discrimination, anything from simply feeling excluded to something more overt. ... If you cannot authentically be who you are at this stage of your life, it’s really tragic."

Though SAGE currently provides similar programming at New York’s LGBT Community Centre in Greenwich Village, the new centre will allow officials to extend the services to people across the city.

When it opens, the SAGE Centre will follow similar facilities in Spain and Germany catering to the elderly LGBT population.

When will the UK follow?