International Innovation Project
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IIP is a collaborative health promotion project by the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston, MA, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland, Seton Hall University in Orange, NJ, and Metropol Professionshøjskolen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
For the 2014 project, our group worked with the LGBT Aging Project and the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition to create a resource for healthcare professionals. This website is the result of that project.
Innovation Project Collaborators: Frances Benjamin (USA), Morten Glarfeldt Christensen (Denmark), Meredith Drake (USA),
Meri Laasko (Finland), Tiina Tadiya Nissinen (Finland)
This non-profit organization was founded in 2001 by a group of advocates from both the aging service network and the LGBT community who recognized that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender elders are invisible to mainstream elder service providers and that older LGBTs are invisible within LGBT community as well.
Since its inception the Aging Project has collaborated with community partners to conduct research among LGBT elders and mainstream providers, engaged scores of LGBT elders themselves, provided training to more than 2,000 people and increased public awareness of LGBT elders and caregivers, and the issues that impact their lives. We are proud of our pioneering and innovative work within both the mainstream and LGBT communities.
Founded in 2001, the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) is an advocacy, education, and community-building organization that works to end discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression. This includes working towards the empowerment of all persons who have been, are being, or might be deprived of equal rights and/or fair treatment because of their gender expression or identity.