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Sexual problems as we get older may not be a part of the natural aging process but instead may be related to stressors like our emotional and physical health, a new study shows.
Researchers looked at original interviews with 1,550 women and 1,455 men aged 57 to 85 as part of the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP).
The interviews were done face-to-face in the elders' homes between July 2005 and March 2006. Participants were asked about their sexual activity in the previous year.
Among those seniors who said they had been sexually active in the past year, about half of them also reported at least one "bothersome" sexual problem.
Study authors, led by Edward Laumann, PhD, write that there is little known about the problems plaguing elders having sex.
In defining sexual problems, the researchers included these issues:
Respondents were asked how much the problems bothered them.
Researchers also looked at age, ethnicity, whether the person was married, divorced, widowed, or never married, and how much education they had.
Three sets of risk factors for sex problems were looked at:
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