Sex
in the SNF September 21, 2023 -- Old people have sex? Who knew? By a Medscape article, Love and Sex in the Nursing Home? Ethicist Says, 'Why Not?' published today, we are shocked. Or maybe not.
"Challenges stereotypes most of us don't even know we have."--Indiana University Center on Aging My mother... Explores the reactions of other people to a loving relationship between an aging pair and the pressures that are brought to end its "unseemliness". Says the Ethicist... Stopping nonconsensual activities, yes. [But] when mom chooses to have a little romance in the nursing home, my attitude is to butt out. This has been obvious to us for 35 years... It's good to see the world catching up. Go Ethicist! Go Mom (his and mine)! Go compassionate nurses! |
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798
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