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Course Outline:
Course Outline
Hour 1
- Overview of U.S. aging population
- Trends affecting senior population
- Wellness perception impact
- Discussion of sex and sexuality
Hour 2
- Understanding sexual health problems
- Overview of sexual script theory
- Research finding on seniors and sexual behavior
- Connection between sexual health and aging experience
Hour 3
- Discuss senior service providers
- Learn about long and short term communities providing home accommodations
- Understand home policies pertaining to privacy
- Living options supporting aging
- Sexual health and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
- Explore sexuality in older age
Hour 4
- Discuss medication effects on sexual health
- Explore consent and cognitive health
- Effects of cognition on sexual health
- Understanding the rights of cognitively impaired individuals and sexual freedom
- Explore ethical issues of capacity and personal choice
- Impact of cognitive impairment in senior communities, pertaining to sexual freedom
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