Polyamorous Elders
Aging in Open Relationships
Zusammenfassung
This book explores the unique group of elders, ages fifty-five and older, who practice some form of consensual nonmonogamy. It covers both the joys and challenges of multiple relationships for elders and explores how their relationships develop and evolve. Polyamorous elders have the complexities of juggling multiple relationships, as well as navigating all the issues of aging: managing medical conditions and disabilities (their own and/or their partners’); assuming caregiving responsibilities for aging relatives; grieving the deaths of parents, siblings, and partners; retiring from careers and starting new lives; and potentially moving into some form of senior living.
Drawing from her extensive clinical and personal experience working with this population, Kathy Labriola provides anecdotes from polyamorous elders’ lives, including the constellation of relationships surrounding each individual, couple, or triad. This guide will help health care and mental health clinicians, researchers, and professionals, as well as polyamorous elders and their loved ones, better understand the concerns and diverse lifestyles of this population to better represent and support them.
Schlagworte
Aging Open relationships Swingers Sex therapy Marriage counseling Human sexuality jealousy Race Class Gender Polyamory aging and marriage aging and relationships aging and sex BIPOC polyamory non-monogamy social work with LGBTQ community marriage and family therapy mental health policy mental health services mental health system metamours poly therapy polyamory polyamory and adult children polyamory and families polyamory and the lifespan polyamory dynamics polyamory legal issues mononormativity thruples LGBTQ advocates LGBTQ psychotherapy intersectional framework geriatric advice compersion counseling LGBTQ couples counseling nonmonogamy CNMKeywords
sex education mental health couples counseling geriatrics- i–xxviii Preface i–xxviii
- 221–224 Bibliography 221–224
- 225–228 References 225–228
- 229–240 Index 229–240
- 241–242 About the Author 241–242