Sexual functioning in older adults

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-11

  DeLamater, John ^a   Karraker, Amelia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANORGASMIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ETHNICITY; HEALTH STATUS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIFE EVENT; MENOPAUSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MASTURBATION; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 59249107338     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-009-0002-4     Document Type: Review

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