Older Couples Chapter 1 3 INTRODUCTION

Research Conducted on Older Couples' Levels of Marital Satisfaction 13

Therapeutic Issues: Sexuality and Intimacy among the Aged 14

Therapeutic Issues: Countertransference 18

Social and Psychological Factors Affecting the Aging Marital System 20

Psychotherapeutic Interventions with the Elderly 23

What attitudes do therapists have of marital counseling for the elderly and are these attitudes affected by the therapist demographics of gender, age, educational background, type of degree attained, number of years of therapeutic practice, type of practice, and percentage of practice devoted to marital intervention with older couples? The proposed study offers a description of research designed to answer these questions.

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ouples was equivalent to that of younger newlyweds. Other studies (Brier & Rubenstein, 1979; Butler & Lewis, 1976; Comfort, 1982; Pfeiffer & Davis, 1972; Sviland, 1975) suggested that frequency of sexual behavior through the years was most predictive of later life desire. Old myths and standards were not easily left behind, especially when there was a dearth of factual information. For the most part, this lack of information can be traced to two factors. First, when older adults comprised a significantly smaller portion of the general population, very few researchers tended to exhibit interest in aging or the relationship between advancing age and sexual behaviors (Peterson & Nisenholz, 1994) . However, as the number and proportion of the aged has grown, research interest has also grown and grant monies spent in different directions were now being termed to empirical investigations of the older populations (Weg, 1983). Second, according to Weg (1983), many researchers found it difficult (and at times impossible) to probe into the sexual lives and activities of older adults not raised in an environment that promoted or even tolerated the open and frank discussion of sexual matters. Some individuals were unaccustom
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