Why No Sex in Nursing Homes?
In this editorial, a psychologist well versed in issues of aging points out the appalling lack of privacy people experience in nursing homes. He shows how sexual expression and relations there have gotten to be impossible for residents and calls for taking the Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987 seriously in its requirement that nursing homes help people attain and maintain their highest sense of physical, mental, and social well-being---which includes the right to self- and sexual expression.