Index

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Notes on editors and contributors ix
4. Series editors’ introduction xiii
5. Foreword xxv
6. Introduction to volume two: themes, issues and chapter synopses 1
7. Consent and sexual literacy for older people 17
8. ‘At YOUR age???!!!’: the constraints of ageist erotophobia on older people’s sexual and intimate relationships 35
9. The aesthetic(s) of eroticism in later life 53
10. Menopause and the ‘menoboom’: how older women are desexualised by culture 77
11. Ageing, physical disability and desexualisation 95
12. Ageing, intellectual disability and desexualisation 117
13. Dancing in- or out-of-step? Sexual and intimate relationships among heterosexual couples living with Alzheimer’s disease 135
14. Older people living in long-term care: no place for old sex? 153
15. Ageing and the LGBTI+ community: a case study of Australian care policy 171
16. The role of professionals and service providers in supporting sexuality and intimacy in later life: theoretical and practice perspectives 191
17. Final reflections: themes and issues arising from the volume on desexualisation in later life 211
18. Index 221