Friday, July 10, 2015
Talking Body..
In a nursing home in Iowa, an elderly couple with dementia had sex, and management took severe measures as a result.
“Very few nursing homes around the country acknowledged the sexual behavior or intimacy of their residents,” Daniel Reingold, president and CEO of the Hebrew Home “
“Our position is very strongly that consenting adults who have capacity, this is a civil right of theirs,” he said. “They do not give up a civil right simply because they are in need of nursing care in a facility. And that our obligation as a nursing facility is to encourage their civil rights, as we would do with respect to voting.”
The Hebrew Home has had several residents who have become romantically involved, and those relationship have generally been good for the residents and acceptable to the families, Reingold said.
Growing old is a process of loss: losing your friends, losing your spouse, losing your mobility, losing your memory. But the sense of touch is the last to go.
“Some research shows that the sense of touch never goes, even if a person is in a coma,” Listen to the beautiful song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzRyxGBGiAE
Just a thought.
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