The Consortium on Sexuality and Aging
About Us
Who we are
We are dedicated to enhancing the sexual health, knowledge and well being of people in mid and later life by providing quality sexuality education to individuals, couples and to professionals who serve them. As an educational outreach initiative of the Widener University Graduate Program in Human Sexuality, we are affiliated with a highly respected academic program equally committed to healthy lifespan sexuality and professional practice.
We invite you to tour this site and explore how you and/or your organization may benefit from sexuality consulting, training, policy development and resource development.
Consortium members are professionals whose work addresses diverse aspects of sexuality. We recognize sexuality to be a lifespan issue that affects everything about an individual from self-perceived sex and gender to the management of sexual health and attractions of the heart.
How can we help you?
Age may change some aspects of an individual’s sexuality, but it needn’t dampen desire or sexual expression. Indeed, the aging and aged often need and desire more human contact than ever before. Consortium members provide consulting, counseling and group workshops that help individuals and couples enhance their relationships and sexual quality of life.
Sexuality policies and staff attitudes can challenge administrators of senior housing and care facilities. Consortium members can assist by providing consulting on policy development and staff training.
An older individual’s sexual decisions can significantly affect relationships with family members. Consoritum programs and counseling can help individuals, couples and families preserve their elders’ dignity and privacy issues.
Contact us today to learn about our members’ customized solutions to the sensitive challenges of sexuality and aging.
Involvement
Board of Directors
- Peggy Brick, MEd, CSE, president
- Constance Bowes, MA, EdD, treasurer
- Kathryn Forsythe, MSW
- Joan Garrity
- Robin Goldberg-Glen, PhD, MSW
- Karen Hicks, PhD, CSE
- Anita Hoffer, PhD
- Travis Sky Ingersol, MSW, MEd
- Jean Levitan, Phd
- Susie Wilson, MsEd
- Melanie Davis, EdD, CSE, Coordinator
- Ex oficio, Betsy Crane, PhD, professor and director, Widener University Graduate Program in Human Sexuality
Advisory Board
- Terry Beresford, Consultant and trainer in family planning, sex education, and organizational Development (retired)
- Carol M. Cassel, PhD, Critical Pathways Consulting
- Carol A. Cobb-Nettleton, D.S.W., child psychologist and adjunct associate professor
- Eli Coleman, PhD, LP, director of the Program in Human Sexuality and professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota
- Robin Dessel, LSMW, Director of Memory Services, Riverdale Home for the Aged
- Gayle Doll, assistant professor and director, Center on Aging, Kansas State University
- Beryl Goldman, Director for Kendal Outreach, the Kendal Corporation
- Patricia Barthalow Koch, PhD, professor of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University
- Peter Lichtenberg, PhD, director of the Institute of Gerontology and professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Wayne State University
- William R. Stayton, MDiv, Thd, PhD, professor/assistant director, Center of Excellence for Sexual Health, Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine
- Leonore Tiefer, PhD. clinical associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine
- Beverly Whipple, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor emerita, Rutgers University
