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  • 9 - Ageing and Chronic Illness

  • from Part III - Lifespan Changes to Families and Relationships
  • Sonja J. Ellis, University of Waikato, New Zealand, Damien W. Riggs, Flinders University of South Australia, Elizabeth Peel, Loughborough University
  • Book:
    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, and Queer Psychology
    Published online:
    12 December 2024
    Print publication:
    12 December 2024, pp 175-198

  • Summary

    This chapter examines ageing and chronic illness among LGBTIQ people. First, this chapter discusses the relative visibility/invisibility of LGBTIQ ageing, alongside introducing and critiquing the prevalent neoliberal concept of successful ageing. Following this, the chapter engages with cohort effects (e.g., generational differences) in LGBTIQ populations and their impacts on ageing experiences. The chapter also reviews research on chronic illness in LGBTIQ populations, with specific reference to dementia. LGBTIQ people’s experiences of dying and bereavement are also discussed, with specific reference to AIDS-related bereavement (in the 1980s) and ‘bereavement overload’ and partner loss, including the possibility of ‘disenfranchised grief’.