Its goal is to facilitate learning, support best practice, and serve as a resource to help nurses and care staff address the needs of older service users in a professional, sensitive, legal and practical way.
Alongside raising awareness of issues which can impact on the sexuality, intimate relationships and sexual
activity of older care home residents, the document contains:
- legal and professional frameworks within which nursing and caring practice takes place
- considerations for policies that address sexuality and sexual health needs in care homes
- guidance on principles of good practice, including care environments, organisational systems and care
- practices
- ideas on how to identify barriers to expression of sexuality and work towards removing these in
- practice
- suggestions on how to broach issues concerning sexuality, intimate relationships and sex
- guidance on dealing with situations where sexuality is seen as a problem
- suggestions on how staff can develop their own confidence and competence in dealing with
- sexuality issuescase examples,which can be used to highlight issues for discussion.
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