Overview

34.2 million adults in the US have provided unpaid caregiving for an adult age 50 or older in the past year. 42% of them cared for a parent. 75% of all caregivers are women. 40% of people between 65 and 80 are still sexually active and 57% say that sex is important to their overall quality of life. 36% of adults in the United States use masks, blindfolds and bondage tools during sex. Worldwide that number is only 20%. AUDIENCE: Women between 30 and 60 who are concerned about caregiving for aging loved ones either because they are doing it, have done it, or are worried about doing it in the future Baby boomer women who are concerned about maintaining their sex lives as they age and struggle with issues of independence Readers who enjoy unconventional stories about commonly experienced personal challenge Professionals in fields touching on this story: sexuality educators, geriatricians, social workers, nurses and doctors, especially those who specialize in oncology, palliative care, or rehabilitative medicine in hospitals and rehab settings People interested in BDSM/Domme sexuality, especially those over 50

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In this fascinating exploration of a complex mother-daughter relationship, Elizabeth Wood comes to terms with her mother's flaws and eccentricities in order to make peace with her impending death. Wood also shines a necessary spotlight on the myriad bureaucracies within our health care system that make navigating illness challenging and often dehumanizing. A smartly written, thought-provoking read. --Heather Frimmer, MD, author of Bedside Manners Elizabeth Wood puts a human face on our health care crisis. She offers a loving testimony to her mother--who lived life exuberantly as an elder dominatrix--and an indictment of the way our health care system treats those least able to advocate for themselves. --Joan Price, author of Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex and the forthcoming Sex After Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Loss of Your Beloved

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Elizabeth Anne Wood is a SUNY Chancellors Award–winning professor of sociology at Nassau Community College in Garden City, NY. She is also Senior Strategist for Woodhull Freedom Foundation, the nation’s only human rights organization working full time to protect sexual freedom as a fundamental human right. She earned her PhD at Brandeis University in 1999 and has written critically about sexuality and society ever since. Born on an Army base in Kentucky, Wood grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and now divides her time between Queens, New York and Jamaica Plain, Boston. She is a devoted fan of Amtrak and an avowed cat person.

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