VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
J Homosex. 2010;57(6):776-89. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2010.485877.
An ongoing fear in the gay and lesbian community is that long-term care (LTC) facilities may not be sensitive to their needs. In the present study, 218 LTC staff members responded to one of three vignettes in which resident sexual contact was observed, with only the gender of the characters changing, to create different gender pairings. Results suggested that staff rated male-male and female-female pairings more negatively than heterosexual intimacy. Knowledge about older adult sexuality made little difference in staff ratings. However, staff attitudes were directly related to ratings of negative reaction and level of acceptability of same-gender sexuality.
在同性恋群体中，有一种持续存在的担忧，即长期护理（LTC）机构可能无法满足他们的需求。在本研究中，218 名长期护理机构的工作人员对三种情景案例中的一种做出回应，这些案例中观察到了居民的性接触，仅改变了角色的性别，以创建不同的性别组合。结果表明，工作人员对男男和女女组合的评价比异性间的亲密关系更负面。对老年人性行为的了解对工作人员的评价影响不大。然而，工作人员的态度与对同性性行为的负面反应和可接受程度的评价直接相关。
