Increasing Awareness and the Reduction of STD'S in adults 50 & older

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Increasing Awareness and the Reduction of STD'S in adults 50 & older

Sex Awareness and Prevention of STD'S

Older adults often don't get STD screenings and treatment because both them and their doctors are often reluctant to raise the issue

Prevention strategies for older adults in the primary care settings often aren't aimed at HIV or STD' S

Utilize pre-test and post-test surveys

Outcomes

Expectations

Come up with adult friendly strategies to get them to talk about it more

Group Therapy

Role playing

May start dating more than one partner after a divorce or death

Heighten awareness on using protection

Study done from 1990-1991 using national survey found less than 4% of sexually active older adults with at least one risk factor for HIV had used a condom consistently in 6 months

Adults 50 & older don't discuss their sex life with their PCP

Chlamydia and Gonorrhea are most common in older adults.

Their immune systems lose some ability to fight off diseases with age, making it harder to fight an infection

Clinic's that cater to the older population and provides awareness on STD'S and prevention

High Risk sexual behaviors

CONS

PROS

Chi Square Test

Clinical trials

Condoms & profilactics

Among people ages 55 to 64 reports of chlamydia cases nearly doubled between 2012 and 2010, from 4,950 to 9,321.

May not consider having oral sex a way of contracting or transmitting STD'S