5. Fact: Most older people live close to their children a nd see them often. Many live with their spouses. An estimated 80% of men and 60% of women live in family settings. Only 5% of the older populations lives in nursing homes.
8. Fact: The Berkeley Older Generation Study examined the responses given by participants as young-old adults and old-old adults. The largest percentage of young-old interviewees selected the decade of their 50s as the most satisfying. Contrary to the myth of the youth-obsessed older adult, the era of childhood does not become more cherished with age.
11. Exercise at any age can help strengthen the heart and lungs and lower blood pressure. It also can improve muscle strength, and, if carefully chosen, lessen bone loss with age.
12. Older adults begin to lose interest in their sexual life. Old people don’t have sex.
14. More variants are invented for making love, because certain positions are not possible anymore. For most women around the age of 50, the menopause occurs. Besides all kinds of psychological and social changes there are also a number of hormonal changes. These hormonal changes make the mucous membrane thinner and more sensitive to pain and it gets damaged more easily. This can lead to pain while making love. However, it's not just the hormones that play a role. Women get psychologically aroused less quickly. Old men ejaculate less quickly; sometimes the desire to make love is also much reduced. Erection problems occur more often. In most cases the frequency of making love is lower, but the pleasure in making love increases. This also depends on the quality of the relationship and how the partners treat each other.
