Mostly White, Christian, and Straight: Informational and Institutional Erasure of LGBTQ and Ethnoculturally Diverse Older Adults on Long-Term Care Homes Websites

Authors

Ferzana Chaze, Sheridan CollegeFollow
Sulaimon Giwa, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Nellie Groenenberg, Sheridan College
Bianca Burns, Sheridan College

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-14-2019

Keywords

older adults, long-term care home, LTCH, website, race, racialization, LGBTQ, diversity, inclusion

Abstract

The website of a long-term care home is the face of the organization, providing not only a snapshot view of the home’s programs and services, but also an insight into the organization’s vision, mission, policies, and culture. The website provides information—either purposefully or inadvertently—about the manner in which the organization responds to diversity among its residents. Guided by an intersectional analysis, this study uses content analysis to examine websites of long-term care homes run by companies, municipalities, and not-for-profit organizations in two provinces in Canada to understand how these websites demonstrate inclusion towards ethnoculturally diverse and LGBTQ older adults. Findings of the study indicate that these long-term care home websites showed very little inclusion of LGBTQ and ethnoculturally diverse older adults in the information provided on their website.

Faculty

Faculty of Applied Health & Community Studies (FAHCS)

School

Sheridan College

Journal

Journal of Aging and Long-Term Care

Volume

2

Issue

1

First Page

21

Last Page

36

Version

Publisher's version

Peer Reviewed/Refereed Publication

yes

Terms of Use

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Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Original Publication Citation

Chaze, F., Giwa, S., Groenenberg, N.,& Burns, B. (2019). Mostly white, Christian, and straight: Informational and institutional erasure of LGBTQ and ethnoculturally diverse older adults on long-term care homes websites. Journal of Aging and Long-Term Care, 2 (1), 21-36. doi: 10.5505/jaltc.2019.69188

SOURCE Citation

Chaze, Ferzana; Giwa, Sulaimon; Groenenberg, Nellie; and Burns, Bianca, "Mostly White, Christian, and Straight: Informational and Institutional Erasure of LGBTQ and Ethnoculturally Diverse Older Adults on Long-Term Care Homes Websites" (2019). Publications and Scholarship. 10.
https://source.sheridancollege.ca/fahcs_publications/10