Intimacy as we grow older


300 dpi 5 col x 10 in / 246x254 mm / 837x864 pixels Gary Markstein color illustration of a hand-holding couple in love at an outdoor summer festival. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 2005

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The issue of physical intimacy in the elderly is very often neglected in mainstream medicine.

When I think about the 2003 movie Something’s Gotta Give, one of the scenes I remember best is the one where 63-year-old playboy Harry Sanborn (played by Jack Nicholson) cuts up 56-year-old playwright Erica Barry’s (Daine Keaton) shirt during foreplay.

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