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Seniors Need Information on Sexual Health

Bridget M. Kuehn

JAMA. 2008;300(11):1285-1287.

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As evidence emerges that many individuals maintain active sex lives well into their later years, physicians are being challenged to look past stereotypes and discomfort to broach to their older patients such sensitive topics such as sexual dysfunction and the risk of sexually transmitted diseases.

Emerging evidence over the past decade suggests that many older adults continue to have sex, many experience sexual dysfunction, and some are at risk of sexually transmitted infections. Yet many physicians never discuss these important health issues with their older patients.

DEALING WITH DYSFUNCTION

In 2007, Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and colleagues published data from the largest US survey of sexuality in older adults to date, which included interviews with nationally representative sample of more than 3000 adults aged 57 to 85 years (Lindau ST et al. N Engl J Med. 2007;357[8]:762-774). Nearly three-quarters of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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