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Sex and dementia: Aging population set for 'rape case timebomb' in nursing homes in USA

This problem will come to the UK

By James Nye

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Sex among dementia sufferers from the Baby Boomer generation is set to become a legal minefield for nursing homes and bring potential heart-break to their healthy spouses and children.

Currently, there approximately five million people in the U.S. who have Alzheimer’s and with 40 million people in the U.S. now currently aged over 65 – that number is expected to rise over the next decade to 7.1 million.

With those numbers only due to go up, the $120 billion nursing home industry expects massive financial growth – but as the Baby Boomers age, their carers and families will surely be faced with difficult legal, ethical and moral questions.

There approximately five million people in the U.S. who have Alzheimer’s and with 40 million people in the U.S. now currently aged over 65 – that number is expected to rise over the next decade to 7.1 million

Rock ’n’ roll care homes for baby boomers

 Care homes will need to change radically

 

Care homes will need to change radically to overcome the fears of baby boomers who “dread” living in them, one of the architects of the Government’s reforms of the elderly care system has warned.

Paul Burstow, a former care minister,

Mr Burstow, who chaired the committee of MPs and peers scrutinising the Government’s Bill to reform the system, will announce a commission of experts tomorrow to design a new model.

Making a difference for family carers

Guest Blog –Carol Munt

Travelled to Oxford today for the Thames Valley Mental Health, Dementia and Neurological Conditions Network Development Day.

There were some very good speakers from the voluntary sector in addition to those from the Health sector including Professor Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director.

I’m not sure how I feel about the objectives, I have an uncanny feeling that we’ve heard it all before under another guise.