Open AccessSexuality and Intimacy Among Older Women Living with HIV: a Systematic Review
Author(s) -
Amelia M. Stanton,
Georgia R Goodman,
Sara E. Looby,
Gregory K. Robbins,
Christina Psaros
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
current sexual health reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1548-3592
pISSN - 1548-3584
DOI - 10.1007/s11930-019-00227-6
Subject(s) - human sexuality , pleasure , psychology , reproductive health , psychosocial , sexual desire , population , psychological intervention , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , gender studies , psychiatry , psychotherapist , environmental health , sociology
Sexual well-being and intimacy are critical to overall quality of life and retain a high degree of significance for aging individuals, even though these considerations are often overlooked in older populations. Sexual health may be particularly impacted in older individuals living with HIV, especially women, as a result of both physical and psychosocial disease-specific factors. Despite this, sexuality research related to HIV has traditionally focused on risk reduction, rather than on other elements of sexual wellness. In this review, we examine several aspects of sexual well-being that may be important to older women living with HIV (OWLH).