The rapid change of modern society is influencing the elderly\'s life in many ways. As the population of the aged increases rapidly, the ageing society becomes a reality in our country.
As the life expectancy is extended, and the elderly become in good health physically owing to promotion of the quality of life, the sexual problems of the elderly become one of social issues. These problems of the elderly are due to discord between the spouses and alienation from families and social indifference as ever. Accordingly a sexual relationship with one\'s spouse is regarded more important than before. Not only the elderly couples but also the number of the single elderly without a spouse by divorce or bereavement are also interested in sexual matters increasingly.
The purpose of this study is to identify the sexual problems of the elderly in the ageing society and the alternatives in the context of social welfare, such as the development of the social services program with other social networks and the establishment of the remarriage agencies for the aged, continuing education and leisure and recreation programs in community offices, public halls for the elderly in the districts, religious institutions, private clubs, and so on.
We should seek to offer many opportunities and places for the social meeting among the single elderly. Then the elderly can overcome their physical and emotional difficulties by making their conditions be able to have the sexual life, and they are expected to enjoy their life with more satisfaction through the various ways in the respect of social work for the elderly.
Keywords: the ageing society, sexual problem, discordant between the spouses, the single elderly