The community health nurse is asked by the older adults in a senior center to discuss how age affects sexuality. The priority information the nurse should convey is:
1. Sex can be an important part of their lives
2. Aging effectively terminates sexuality
3. Production of sperm decreases with aging
4. Production of androgen hormones increases with aging
ANS: 1
Physiologic changes in the reproductive system do not mean sexuality is impaired or that intima-cy is taboo. Many older adults enjoy various forms and degrees of intimacy and sexual relations. 2. This is false. 3. Sperm production continues well into old age. 4. Androgen production de-creases with aging.
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