Loneliness and social isolation are major problems for older adults. Interventions and
activities aimed at reducing social isolation and loneliness are widely advocated as a …

Aim To use systematic methods to examine how resilience is defined in empirical research.
Background Resilience is a term that is increasingly being used to describe and explain the …

Research consistently reports that older people tend not to seek medical help for sexual
concerns or difficulties. This article reviews the literature to examine help-seeking for, and …

Stereotypes of an asexual old age remain pervasive, shaping not only popular images of
older people, but also research and policy agendas. However, older people's own attitudes …

Background. There is evidence that health professionals do not discuss sexually related
issues in consultations as often as patients would like. Although primary care has been …

How health professionals perceive and manage later life sexual problems remains relatively
unexplored and, in particular, little is known about the attitudes of GPs, who represent the …

Objective Place of death, specifically the percentage who die in hospital or residential aged
care, is largely unreported. This paper presents a cross-national comparison of location of …

Objectives: To explore the attitudes of older people towards home as a place of care when
dying. Design: A two-phase qualitative study using focus groups and semi-structured …

Background. Although it is known that only a small minority of people experiencing sexual
problems seek treatment for these, barriers to treatment seeking remain relatively …

The present paper explores general practitioners'(GPs') perspectives on the difficulties
which they face when discussing sexual health issues with lesbian and gay patients in …