With The December 9 Coalition (of Queer activists), for decades, I lobbied Statistics Canada to include questions of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) in the Census. GI made it, SO didn't. Single LGB Canadians are invisible in the Census. I've failed. The slap in the face is that, when I applied for MAiD, I was not able to identify as Gay there either! All the other grounds identified by the experts and their panels were addressed. They even used the non-acronym 2SLGBTQAI+, yet none of the MAiD application forms I found online had the SO question.
(The Red Cross' new program, "Friendly Calls," asks questions about demographics and hobbies/interests to match users and volunteers better. They decided to EXCLUDE the SO question. I've talked with Jacqui Jesso who was involved with that decision. She would not tell me why they made that decision. If that's not discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, then what is?)
Does anyone have data on how many marginalized people are served by and die in hospices? I have heard anecdotally that this is an area of concern in palliative care: how to serve a more diverse population - socioeconomic status being one aspect of that
Sorry for the delay! There's international evidence that lower socioeconomics status people tend to use hospice/palliative care less. Interestingly, this seems to be true even when access is the same: https://rdcu.be/dYKd0
With The December 9 Coalition (of Queer activists), for decades, I lobbied Statistics Canada to include questions of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) in the Census. GI made it, SO didn't. Single LGB Canadians are invisible in the Census. I've failed. The slap in the face is that, when I applied for MAiD, I was not able to identify as Gay there either! All the other grounds identified by the experts and their panels were addressed. They even used the non-acronym 2SLGBTQAI+, yet none of the MAiD application forms I found online had the SO question.
(The Red Cross' new program, "Friendly Calls," asks questions about demographics and hobbies/interests to match users and volunteers better. They decided to EXCLUDE the SO question. I've talked with Jacqui Jesso who was involved with that decision. She would not tell me why they made that decision. If that's not discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, then what is?)
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Does anyone have data on how many marginalized people are served by and die in hospices? I have heard anecdotally that this is an area of concern in palliative care: how to serve a more diverse population - socioeconomic status being one aspect of that
Sorry for the delay! There's international evidence that lower socioeconomics status people tend to use hospice/palliative care less. Interestingly, this seems to be true even when access is the same: https://rdcu.be/dYKd0
I'm not sure about Canadian-specific data though!