British Cafe provides lifeline for LGBT+ dementia sufferers

London’s Rainbow Memory Cafe allows LGBT+ people impacted by dementia to socialize and receive support. [Courtesy]

Imagine living through the gay rights revolution that has transformed the lives of LGBT+ people in many parts of the world - and then, in old age, forgetting it.

That is one of the many challenges facing gay people with dementia, who can find themselves plunged into a more hostile past, or be left struggling to remember who knows about their sexual orientation.