Nowadays intimacy or intimate relationship is very familiar and widely used term all over the world. The term 'Intimacy' generally denotes a close interpersonal relationship or feeling of being in a close personal association and belonging together from both physical and mental point of view. It also denotes very close and effective connection with one another which may exist for whole life or ...

Background: Parents, in their joint life, with different developmental background, personality style, various experiences and family background as well as with the expectations that are the results of their families’ impacts or previous relationships, come to experience new things. These experiences have an impact on their daily behavior patterns, cognitions, quality of dealing with problems an...

Sexuality and intimacy in care homes for older people are overshadowed by concern with prolonging physical and/or psychological autonomy. When sexuality and intimacy have been addressed in scholarship, this can reflect a sexological focus concerned with how to continue sexual activity with reduced capacity. We review the (Anglophone) academic and practitioner literatures bearing on sexuality an...

This case-control study evaluated the factors influencing volunteering in the Islamic Republic of Iran's Women's Health Volunteer (WHV) programme, which is implemented in 150 centres in Khorasan-e-Razavi Province. We recruited 145 cases (volunteers) and 146 controls (non-volunteers) from the centres. Data were collected by questionnaire. Sociodemographic variables included were: length of resid...

this essay attempts to express the point that in martin heidegger’s thought, the primordial relationship between man and the world is constituted through action. in the field of action, man, because of his being situated inside the tool-structure of the world, is provided with meaning, but is not too absorbed in theoretical contemplation. as soon as some kind of interruption is introduced in th...