Aging and Sexual Orientation: A 25-Year Review of the Literature

Overview

Journal Res Aging

Specialty Geriatrics

Date 2013 Oct 8

PMID 24098063

Citations 71

Authors

Karen I Fredriksen-Goldsen

Anna Muraco

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Abstract

In a review of 58 articles published between 1984 and 2008, this article synthesizes the recent state of social research on older lesbian, gay male, and bisexual adults in order to summarize existing knowledge about these groups, to guide future research on aging, and to identify the substantive issues affecting their lives. Based on a life-course perspective, the primary research domains identified include the interplay of lives and historical times and linked and interdependent lives. After reviewing the literature in each of these areas, the article presents an examination of the strengths and limitations of the body of knowledge and an outline of a blueprint for future research.

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