By Winnie Hu When Audrey Davison met someone special at her nursing home, she wanted to love her man. Her nurses and aides at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale did not try to stop her. On the contrary, she was allowed to stay over in her boyfriend’s room with the door shut under the Bronx home’s stated “sexual expression policy.” One aide even made the couple a “Do Not Disturb” sign to hang outside. “I enjoyed it and he was a very good lover,” Davison, 85, said. “That was part of how close we were: physically touching and kissing.” A resident of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale wears a corsage to its senior prom, in the Bronx borough of New York. Nursing homes across the country are increasingly...
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