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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2025
This section provides three suggested learning activities for readers that connect explicitly with the content and themes that have arisen in the final three chapters in Part III. These focus on the application of your learning to direct care practices that make a difference to improving care and support for trans people in later life.
Practitioners can use these learning activities to help develop and share knowledge, skills and values that will inform the development of affirmative and person- centred support for older trans people by:
• extending your own personal and professional knowledge through relevant desktop research or practitioner enquiry;
• facilitating critical reflection and learning through active discussion in your team and service.
Educators and trainers can use these activities to:
• include trans ageing issues in the education and training of the workforce;
• guide the aim and focus of trans issues, drawing on the relevant evidence provided.
Managers can use these activities to:
• embed the relevant topics, areas and learning resources into the recruitment, induction, supervision, appraisal and staff career progression process;
• keep a record of key activities that can be drawn upon in practice reviews or benchmarks to demonstrate how the needs of older trans people are being addressed including the potential to demonstrate legal compliance during statutory regulatory activities.
Activity 6: Supporting Amena
Case studies are designed to enable a more detailed and important understanding of issues that trans older people may face while there are gaps in the literature or in your direct experience. They draw on the book contributors’ discussion of issues that may inform how practitioners can improve their practice. We have provided an outline of an individual story with some suggested questions to support individual reflection and/ or active team discussion,
Amena's story
Amena is a trans woman of mixed heritage. Her father came to the UK from India after fighting with the Allies in the Second World War and married her English mother soon after. Amena was born in 1948 and is now in her 70s. She married Asfara at aged 26 and they had four children, and she reflects that this was on the whole a happy and supportive marriage.
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