One in four women aged over 50 has no interest in sex, research suggests

It's a statistic definite to provoke debate: One successful 4 women aged implicit 50 has nary involvement successful sex, probe suggests.

Some 24 per cent person gone disconnected the thought portion 15 per cent ne'er get frisky and 81 per cent accidental their libido has declined since going done the menopause.

Suzanne Noble, big of the podcast Sex Advice For Seniors, said of the findings: 'While a reduced libido does play a relation successful a woman's enthusiasm for sex, improved connection betwixt partners, accrued cognition astir changes successful arousal patterns and maintaining a steadfast fare and workout regular tin each assistance reconstruct feelings of intersexual desire.'

The report, commissioned by vitamins and minerals steadfast Higher Nature, recovered 26 per cent of over-50s women would see taking a supplement to boost their enactment drive.

A abstracted survey shows that staying successful enactment tin assistance women stay mentally and physically crisp arsenic they participate their 60s.

It is particularly bully for keeping 'cognitive functioning' going for those surviving unsocial alternatively than with a partner, according to researchers astatine the Institute for Fiscal Studies economical think-tank.

The probe examined the interaction connected women resulting from large increases successful the authorities pension property implicit the past 15 years. It is present 66 and volition emergence to 67 adjacent year.