The nurse who cares for patients at an assisted living facility is planning a program to address safer sex in older adults. Why would this program be important? (Select all that apply.)
A) Susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) increases with age.
B) HIV/AIDS is spreading more quickly among older adults than among younger adults.
C) Older adults frequently forego condom use because the risk of pregnancy does not exist.
D) Many older adults assume that STIs are problems of younger adults only.
E) Because of the hormonal changes that accompany menopause, older women are in fact more prone to sexually transmitted diseases than younger adults.
B, C, D
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Older adults often forego condom use and assume STIs are not a problem, despite the increasing incidence of HIV/AIDS in older adults. Susceptibility to STIs does not necessarily increase in older adults in general or in older women specifically. In the older population, the use of condoms is often avoided because the risk of pregnancy does not exist. Hormonal changes in menopause do not increase an older woman's susceptibility to sexually transmitted diseases.
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