Hypersexuality in nursing care facilities - A descriptive study

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 195-203

  Nagaratnam, Nages ^a   Gayagay, George ^a  

^a Blacktown Mount Druitt Health ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Frontal lobe dysfunction; Sexual disinhibition; Sexual expression in elderly; Silent cerebral infarction

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MASTURBATION; NURSING; PARIETAL LOBE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVIATION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SEXUALITY; SYMPTOM; TOUCH;

EID: 0036840380     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4943(02)00026-2     Document Type: Article

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