In this episode, Loree Cook-Daniels discusses the advantages of universal design, lessons that can be learned from the disability rights movement, why aging work matters to transgender people and the unique insights LGBT elders can offer about improving aging for everyone.

You know, we can look at 'We're the victims' or we can look at 'We're the leaders. We understand systems that don't work for everybody.' We have a golden opportunity. Loree Cook-Daniels, founding executive director of the Transgender Aging Network and the American Society of Adult Abuse Professionals and Survivors and recent co-chair of the FORGE Forward 2007 Conference and Intensives. She holds an M.S. degree in Conflict Management and a Certificate in Trauma Counseling and is active in the Task Force’s Aging Roundtable, the Lesbian and Gay Aging Issues Network of the American Society on Aging, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects, and Witness Justice’s Survivors Taking Action.

From the Long View: LGBT Elders and Experts Speak is a five-part interview series from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force that features selected members of the first-ever National LGBT Aging Roundtable.


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