Sexual Expression in Late Life
JACK WEINBERG M.D.1
1 Clinical director, Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, 1601 W. Taylor St., Chicago, Ill. 60612, and clinical professor of psychiatry, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Advanced chronological age is no barrier to continued sexual activity, provided that opportunity is present. When it is absent, and sublimated activities are also denied, difficulties may arise. Often the older person's efforts to establish a contactual relationship are misinterpreted and rejected, the author believes, thus forcing him to regressed behavior.
