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| Sexuality, dementia and residential care: managers report and response | | Author(s) | Carole Archibald |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 6, no 2, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp 95-101 |
| Keywords | Sexual activity ; Dementia ; Older men ; Older women ; Care homes ; Residents [care homes] ; Personnel ; Managers ; Scotland. |
| Annotation | The expression of sexuality by people with dementia is an area which has been largely neglected by research, yet in practice appears to be of concern. This study examined the types and prevalence of sexual expression by people with dementia in residential care. A postal questionnaire was sent to managers of social work residential care homes in one region in Scotland, exploring a number of issues, including: the public versus private expression of sexuality by people with dementia; the public response versus the private feelings of managers to such expression; the influence of carer involvement on staff's responses; exploitation of one resident by another; and sexual expression directed at staff by residents. Permeating all these were the issue of gender. Findings revealed that most residents were female, yet the majority of reported incidents involving sexual expression involved male residents directing their attention towards female staff or other residents. Female residents with dementia do express sexuality but numbers reported are considerably less with staff actions tending towards the protective. Some types of sexual expression were of more concern than others, and some were reported to occur more frequently. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980821403 A |
| Classmark | BIU: EA: BC: BD: KW: KX: QM: T6: 9A |
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