Stigma About Older People

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Furthermore, DeLamater (2012), stated that in addition to health-care professionals not having enough knowledge when it comes to older people and their sexuality, research around this topic appears to be limited as well. There are hundreds of articles and studies on older people’s illnesses, medical conditions and lack of sexual function, but hardly any on their sexual expression. “This lack of research based on representative samples of healthy people makes it difficult to develop generalizable models of sexual relationships in later life” (DeLamater, pg. 125). The lack of education about older people’s sexual needs and expressions appears to be a common tread among most scientific articles, resulting in this stigma around older