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Sexuality & Aging: Support & Resources

Recommended Websites

  • Seniors and Aging - Sexual Activity - It's Your HealthOffers helpful information about the benefits of maintaining sexual activity; the challenges of sex and aging; health considerations associated with sex and aging and ways to maximize your sexual experience.

  • Sex Over Sixty Offers insights into the role of sexual expression in later life; the normal changes that age brings and the barriers and myths that prevent seniors from enjoying a healthy sex life.

  • National Institute on Aging: Sexuality in Later LifeProvides suggestions for overcoming normal changes and common physical problems that affect sexuality.
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Recommended Books

  • Better Than I Ever Expected, Joan Price (2005)
     - A playful guide to older-life sexuality. Shares first-hand experiences of the author and other women, offering insight into menopausal sex, ways sex can be more satisfying and techniques for overcoming common issues.

  • The New Love and Sex After 60, Robert N. Butler and Myrna I. Lewis (2002)
    - Covers of the effects of normal aging on sexuality; how to overcome roadblocks; physical and emotional sexual fitness; single-hood and relationships; sexual enhancement tips and dating and remarriage.

  • All Night Long: How to Make Love to a Man Over 50, Barbara Keesling (2005)
    - Focuses on ways to enhance intimacy while coping with the normal and gradual decline of male sexual response.

  • Modern Love: A No-Nonsense Guide to a Life of Passion, Sallie Foley (2006)
    - A collection of answers to the most poignant and provocative questions sent to AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) Magazine's "Modern Love" column. Reveals candid and frank responses about sex, love, and relationships at age 40 and beyond.
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