Improving the sexual lives of older Australians: Perspectives from a qualitative study
© 2017 AJA Inc. Objective: To examine older Australian's perspectives on how their sexual lives can best be supported and/or improved. Methods: Fifty-three, semi-structured interviews were conducted with Australian men (n = 30) and women (n = 23) aged 60 and over. Results: Participants identif...
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| author | Fileborn, B. Lyons, A. Hinchliff, S. Brown, Graham Heywood, W. Dow, B. Malta, S. Minichiello, V. |
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| description | © 2017 AJA Inc. Objective: To examine older Australian's perspectives on how their sexual lives can best be supported and/or improved. Methods: Fifty-three, semi-structured interviews were conducted with Australian men (n = 30) and women (n = 23) aged 60 and over. Results: Participants identified a range of key issues and areas where their sexual lives could be further supported or improved upon, including normalising the occurrence of sex and sexual desire in later life; increasing and improving on the quality of, cultural representations of older adults; introducing policy, educational and practice-based changes in age care facilities to support the consensual sexual expression of residents; and ensuring that sexual health campaigns and education are inclusive of older people. Conclusion: Our findings present clear implications for further developing sexuality education and public health campaigns, training and education of health-care professionals, and generating social and cultural change pertaining to the acceptability of the diversity of sexual expression in later life. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-679872018-05-18T08:05:02Z Improving the sexual lives of older Australians: Perspectives from a qualitative study Fileborn, B. Lyons, A. Hinchliff, S. Brown, Graham Heywood, W. Dow, B. Malta, S. Minichiello, V. © 2017 AJA Inc. Objective: To examine older Australian's perspectives on how their sexual lives can best be supported and/or improved. Methods: Fifty-three, semi-structured interviews were conducted with Australian men (n = 30) and women (n = 23) aged 60 and over. Results: Participants identified a range of key issues and areas where their sexual lives could be further supported or improved upon, including normalising the occurrence of sex and sexual desire in later life; increasing and improving on the quality of, cultural representations of older adults; introducing policy, educational and practice-based changes in age care facilities to support the consensual sexual expression of residents; and ensuring that sexual health campaigns and education are inclusive of older people. Conclusion: Our findings present clear implications for further developing sexuality education and public health campaigns, training and education of health-care professionals, and generating social and cultural change pertaining to the acceptability of the diversity of sexual expression in later life. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67987 10.1111/ajag.12405 Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia restricted |
| spellingShingle | Fileborn, B. Lyons, A. Hinchliff, S. Brown, Graham Heywood, W. Dow, B. Malta, S. Minichiello, V. Improving the sexual lives of older Australians: Perspectives from a qualitative study |
| title | Improving the sexual lives of older Australians: Perspectives from a qualitative study |
| title_full | Improving the sexual lives of older Australians: Perspectives from a qualitative study |
| title_fullStr | Improving the sexual lives of older Australians: Perspectives from a qualitative study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving the sexual lives of older Australians: Perspectives from a qualitative study |
| title_short | Improving the sexual lives of older Australians: Perspectives from a qualitative study |
| title_sort | improving the sexual lives of older australians: perspectives from a qualitative study |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67987 |