{"id":6502,"date":"2014-08-15T09:22:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=6502"},"modified":"2014-08-15T09:22:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:22:06","slug":"sexuality-and-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/health-medicine\/sexuality-and-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexuality and Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/28360\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/\/thumbnails\/28360.jpg\" alt=\"8232\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>As we grow older, sexuality takes on a broader definition. A good sex life &#8212; at any age &#8212; involves a lot more than just sex. It&#8217;s also about intimacy and touch, which can benefit us all. <\/p>\n<p>Understandably, sex at 70 or 80 may not be like it was at 20 or 30 &#8212; but in some ways it can be better. Even if you have health problems or physical disabilities, you can engage in intimate acts and benefit from closeness with another person. <\/p>\n<p>In this presentation, psychiatrist Dan Sewell debunks several myths about sex and aging, and gives us guidelines for discussing sex and maintaining healthy sexual function in later life. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sewell currently fills a number of roles at UC San Diego which include: Medical Director of the Senior Behavioral Health Program, Director of the Geropsychiatry Fellowship Program, Co-director of the Memory Aging and Resilience Clinic, and Associate Director for the UC San Diego Hartford Foundation Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/Sexuality-and-Aging-Research-on-Aging-28360\">Watch Sexuality and Aging<\/a> and tune in for more programs from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/stein\/\">Stein Institute for Research on Aging<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we grow older, sexuality takes on a broader definition. A good sex life &#8212; at any age &#8212; involves a lot more than just sex. It&#8217;s also about intimacy and touch, which can benefit us all. Understandably, sex at 70 or 80 may not be like it was at 20 or 30 &#8212; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}