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| Old(er) care home residents and sexual/intimate citizenship | | Author(s) | Paul Simpson, Maria Horner, Laura J E Brown |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 37, no 2, February 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, February 2017 |
| Pages | pp 243-265 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Sexual activity ; Personal relationships ; Sexual orientation ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Sexuality and intimacy in care homes for older people are overshadowed by concern with prolonging physical and/or psychological autonomy. When sexuality and intimacy have been addressed in scholarship, this can reflect a sexological focus concerned with how to continue sexual activity with reduced capacity. The authors review the (Anglophone) academic and practitioner literatures bearing on sexuality and intimacy in relation to older care home residents (though much of this applies to older people generally). They highlight how ageism (or ageist erotophobia), which defines older people as post-sexual, restricts opportunities for the expression of sexuality and intimacy. In doing so, they draw attention to more critical writing that recognises constraints on sexuality and intimacy; and they indicate solutions to some of the problems identified. They also highlight problems faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) residents who are doubly excluded from sexual and/or intimate citizenship, because of ageism combined with the heterosexual assumption. Older LGBT residents and individuals can feel obliged to deny or disguise their identity. The authors conclude by outlining an agenda for research based on more sociologically informed practitioner-led work. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170210201 A |
| Classmark | KX: KW: BIU: DS: ES6: 64A |
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