Advances in medical science have extended human life expectancy, but of manhood's lives also longer.
That fact was accompanied by a corpus of research in the sexuality of persons who have successfully completed should be regarded as the retirement age. Now, a new Australian study shows that sexual activity and the desire for sex remains a consideration for men who are close to the brand of the century.
"Even though many people, including some doctors believe that sexuality is not important for seniors, our study shows that this is not the case." "Even in the Decade tenth life, 1 in 5 men still considered important sex," said study investigator Zoe Hyde, researcher with the Western Australian Centre for health and aging at the University of Western Australia doctoral. "However, some common medical problems are obstacles for the elderly remain sexually active," said Hyde.
Australian study comes after the United States and the Sweden studies have shown that people in the 1970s, or many lead sexually active and have found high levels of satisfaction among this group, or even superior to their young years.
The new study looked nearly 2,800 men aged 75 to 95. While sexual activity and the desire for sex was lower than in the young adult studies, it remains important. Almost one-third of the interviewed men have had sex in the past year and less than half considered sex "at least somewhat important."
Those who were still active sexually, over forty per cent wanted to do more, but were blocked, often by problems of their own health or the problems of their partners, including conditions such as osteoporosis, diabetes, cancer of the prostate or other physical limitations.
Men who want to be sexually active by the end of life can take preventive measures in their young years, said Hyde.
"Chronic diseases such as diabetes, seems to be the main reason that older men will cease to be sexually active," she told MyHealthNewsDaily. "Men want to remain sexually active ageing, the best thing to do, they is get enough physical activity, eating a healthy and nutritious diet and smoking cessation."
Hyde said that the study also highlighted other things that can help people who are older stay sexually active if they wish.
"It was interesting that testosterone levels were always associated with sexual activity, after which we controlled medical problems and social factors", she says. "This suggests that testosterone deficiency could potentially cause problems for some men, so it is an area that should consider clinical trials of testosterone therapy."
Testosterone treatment is recommended to stop the age-related decline, but it remains controversial due to a lack of data on the risks and benefits.
"It would be premature to propose a Testosterone therapy to improve the sexual interest and activity at this stage," said Hyde. "We need more studies to properly explore treatment risks and possible benefits".
The study take reservations. The authors noted that study men live in the community and may not represent the population of men in this age in all group, some of them living in assisted living facilities.
But scientists have also noted that some men may have been reluctant to be more honest in their responses, because "sex can be a sensitive topic.
Judith Kuriansky, a psychologist and a member of adjunct faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, said that the new study is not surprising in light of the research in other countries.
"Men who are more than 75 are not on the hill over", said Kuriansky.
Because there are more women than men who live in this age ", I am sure, many partners of choice," she said, adding that "with all those drugs that are available, they can always run more."
Kuriansky said one of the impacts that it hoped to see research would rethink how people could spend years later. "It was said that the presence of a greater number of more virile men" has an impact on medical plans and social issues and policy of the Government. »
For example, the mandatory retirement age says, present a problem, because not only active men for more long, they require more social security benefits and pensions to maintain an active lifestyle.
"This is changing the definition of the old East, hyphenation should be higher,"Kuriansky said.""
Pass: the men in the 1970s, the years 80 and 90 are sexually active and almost half wish they had more sex.
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