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• 02 / 17 / 2010

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Specialists assert that sexuality in the elderly ensures health balance and a constant fight against solitude and isolation and of course in favor of social integration.

This is why sexual intercourse is important for improving third aged people’s life quality.

While aging humans increasingly lose the capacity of reproduction but that must not limit the sexual behavior of old people since there are many other forms of sexuality said Doctor Enrique Vega, head of the National Program for the Older Adult of the Ministry of Public Health.

The expert urged the Elderly Department of the University to take part actively in the national research for sexual education monitoring a heterogeneous group in each municipality, where more than 10 000 university students are annually enrolled.
    
Third age is characterized by lower speed and intensity and old people's attitude towards sexuality in general is less liberal due to myths and prejudices hindering the pleasures of tenderness instead Doctor Vega stated.
 
Cuba, with a life span of almost 80 year-old, develops a number of activities to favor longevity and life quality to improve health, food, physical activity, spiritual motivation, culture and environment.

Source: Cubasi