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Why Do Older Adults Have Sex? Approach and Avoidance Sexual Motives Among Older Women and Men

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Caroline Dugal, Audrey Brassard, Pierre-Yves Kusion, Audrey-Ann Lefebvre, Katherine Péloquin & Natacha Godbout. (2024) Romantic Attachment, Sex Motives and Sexual Difficulties in Emerging Adults: The Role of Childhood Interpersonal Victimization. The Journal of Sex Research 61:3, pages 359-373.
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Martin M. Zdanowicz, Beatriz Valdes & Deborah Salani. (2024) Management of HIV in the older adults: Clinical and public health challenge. Public Health Nursing 41:3, pages 406-415.
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Lu Wang, Haiou Zou & Jun Liu. (2023) Mediating effects of ageism and knowledge on the relationship between contact with older adults and attitudes toward older adults' sexuality among nursing students. Nurse Education Today 122, pages 105740.
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Sarit Okun & Liat Ayalon. (2022) Eradicating ageism through social campaigns: An Israeli case study in the shadows of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Journal of Social Issues 78:4, pages 991-1016.
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Norbert Meskó, András N. Zsidó, Béla Birkás, Cindy M. Meston & David M. Buss. (2022) Why Hungarians Have Sex: Development and Validation of a Brief 15-Item Instrument (YSEX?-15H). Archives of Sexual Behavior 51:8, pages 4007-4022.
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Chaya Koren. (2021) Dyadic Experiences of Love in Late-Life Repartnering Relationships. Journal of Family Issues 43:10, pages 2624-2646.
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Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan, Inbar Levkovich, Galit Pinto & Liat Ayalon. (2022) Discomfort in Discussing Sexual Issues: Developing a New Scale for Staff at Long-Term Care Facilities for Older Adults. Journal of Gerontological Nursing 48:9, pages 27-37.
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Sofia von Humboldt, José Alberto Ribeiro-Gonçalves, Andrea Costa, Gail Low, Ester Benko & Isabel Leal. (2022) Sexual Well-Being in Older Adults: a Qualitative Study with Older Adults from Portugal and Slovenia. Sexuality Research and Social Policy.
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Caroline D. Bergeron, Heather H. Goltz, Ali Boolani & Matthew Lee Smith. (2021) Factors Associated with Four Sexual Behaviors among Married/Partnered Women Ages 60 and Older in the United States. Sexes 2:4, pages 445-451.
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Jerry John Nutor, Henry Ofori Duah, Precious Adade Duodu, Pascal Agbadi, Robert Kaba Alhassan & Ernest Darkwah. (2021) Geographical variations and factors associated with recent HIV testing prevalence in Ghana: spatial mapping and complex survey analyses of the 2014 demographic and health surveys. BMJ Open 11:7, pages e045458.
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Pablo Santos-Iglesias & E. Sandra Byers. (2021) Sexual satisfaction of older adults: testing the Interpersonal Exchange Model of Sexual Satisfaction in the ageing population. Ageing and Society, pages 1-23.
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