Open AccessSexuality: Desire, activity and intimacy in the elderly
Author(s) -
Gurvinder Kalra,
Alka A Subramanyam,
Charles Pinto
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.91902
Subject(s) - human sexuality , affect (linguistics) , sexual function , interview , psychology , outpatient clinic , gerontology , clinical psychology , medicine , demography , gender studies , communication , sociology , political science , psychoanalysis , law
Sexual function and activity in old age have been inadequately studied world over. It is important to know that aging processes are not confined to persons beyond the age of 60 years; many changes in elderly have their antecedents in the middle age.