Background Sexual health is an integral part of overall health in older age. Research
consistently reports that heterosexual and queer older people tend not to disclose sexual …

Background Having positive intimate, sexual and relational experiences is an important
issue for older adults in care settings, yet little is known on the extent to which nursing staff …

A deeper understanding of care demands the methodological finesse of qualitative
research: we must observe, listen, and witness to expose what matters to care recipients. In …

New sexual scripts on later life are emerging, discourses on “sexy oldies” challenge
pervasive discourses on asexual old age. Still, sexuality among people with dementia, who …

This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that
new residents and their families enter with, their relationships with fellow residents and …

Names: Shuttleworth, Russell, 1953-editor.| Mona, Linda, editor. Title: The Routledge
handbook of disability and sexuality/edited by Russell Shuttleworth and Linda Mona …

Drawing on biographic narrative interviews with self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans,
and/or queer polyamorous people in Portugal, this article explores the contradictions and …

Deciding to seek placement in a nursing home can be difficult for both older adults and their
families, but especially so for spouses or partners of potential nursing home residents …

Long-term care (LTC) facilities, in which older adults are institutionalised, have the
responsibility to address their residents' rights, privacy and comfort in expressing themselves …

In divergent ways, both government policy and care home practices influence the everyday
life of older people living in English care homes. The rhetoric of choice for care home …