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Using Ethics and Law to Address Sexuality in Long-Term Care

Issues concerning the sexuality of older adults in long-term care have long presented an array of thorny conundrums for long-term care staff and administrators, for friends and family members, and, most importantly, for the residents themselves. At any one time, more than two million older adults re...

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Autor principal: Teaster, Pamela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7741831/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2032
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description Issues concerning the sexuality of older adults in long-term care have long presented an array of thorny conundrums for long-term care staff and administrators, for friends and family members, and, most importantly, for the residents themselves. At any one time, more than two million older adults reside in nursing homes or assisted living facilities, and the predominant trope of people who are helpless, demented, and asexual is at once inaccurate and unfair. Moreover, the important need for sexual intimacy remains a life-long, even when persons have worsening dementia and chronic illness. This presentation uses bona fide, de-identified case examples as a starting point for consideration. Drawing upon the extant literature, as well as best practices, this presentation applies ethical principalism (i.e., autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice) as well as current law to recommend practices and approaches to sexuality in long-term care.
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spelling pubmed-77418312020-12-21 Using Ethics and Law to Address Sexuality in Long-Term Care Teaster, Pamela Innov Aging Abstracts Issues concerning the sexuality of older adults in long-term care have long presented an array of thorny conundrums for long-term care staff and administrators, for friends and family members, and, most importantly, for the residents themselves. At any one time, more than two million older adults reside in nursing homes or assisted living facilities, and the predominant trope of people who are helpless, demented, and asexual is at once inaccurate and unfair. Moreover, the important need for sexual intimacy remains a life-long, even when persons have worsening dementia and chronic illness. This presentation uses bona fide, de-identified case examples as a starting point for consideration. Drawing upon the extant literature, as well as best practices, this presentation applies ethical principalism (i.e., autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice) as well as current law to recommend practices and approaches to sexuality in long-term care. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7741831/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2032 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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