Dignity 2022: The Experience of LGBTQ Older Adults, increases our understanding of the lived experience of older LGBTQ adults in the areas of relationships, caregiving, home and community, health care, financial security, and their concerns around supportive aging and potential discrimination based on LGBTQ identity, age, and disability. The research builds upon what we have learned from AARP’s landmark research study, Maintaining Dignity: A Survey of LGBT Adults Age 45 and Older, which was released in 2018, and The State of LGBTQ Dignity 2020: A Supplement to Maintaining Dignity Pre-Covid-19, which was released in 2021. Since the initial study was released in 2018, our use of terms has evolved. In this study, for example, the terms “lesbian women” and “gay men” and “bisexual pansexual men and women” are meant to distinguish cisgender groups.
