A Scoping Review on Attitudes towards Sexuality in Residential Aged Care

Table 2

Examples of coding themes.

Extracted text	Code given	Final theme
Of emotional reactions among staff, the most anticipated response was discomfort reported by 25 administrators (41.7%), followed by embarrassment (n = 21, 35.0%), panic (n = 8, 13.3%), and disgust (n = 2, 3.3%) [37]	Discomfort and reactions	Hollow attitudes
“Nobody talks about it … nobody practises it. We just live as we are—We’ve had our sex life way back” [38]	Perception of sexuality as past	Postsexual life
I’ve had no training at all. It’s always been a taboo, hasn’t it? People would say things like “watch out, they’re not married.” this whole business of sex has always been a taboo and it will continue to be, so I think all professionals have things they can learn about these issues [39]	Lack of training and education	Organizational setbacks