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According to a report by the Association of Healthcare Journalists, providers hesitate to discuss using technology with an older patient due to the fear that the elderly patient may not understand or be reluctant to use it. Additionally, doctors routinely attribute physical or mental symptoms like depression or aches and pains as a natural part of the aging process without investigating other causes (Seegert, 2019).
Healthcare providers are reluctant to initiate conversations around sexual health or offer appropriate advice or clinical tests, and that older people tend to be hesitant to seek medical help. Later life age groups independently from their sexual orientation represent a hidden population and are absent from sexual health campaigns and government policies (Ezhova et al, 2022)