July 26, 2007
Don’t Laugh — You Should Be Getting So Much At Their Age!
PlanetOut reports:
New York acts to stem HIV among seniors
While volunteers passed out cups of Jell-O to the white-haired lunch crowd at a senior center, another group was distributing something that didn’t quite fit amid the card games and daily gossip — condoms.
“You’re giving out condoms,” 82-year-old Rose Crescenzo said with a wistful smile, “but who’s going to give us a guy?”
The condom giveaway is part of an effort by New York City’s Department of Aging to educate older people about the risks of contracting the virus that causes AIDS. After the condom giveaway, free HIV testing was offered.
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Dan Tietz, executive director of the AIDS research group, said HIV education is needed at senior centers, where the average age is more like 70, because “we know that people are still having sex well past 65.”
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And Crescenzo, who lost her husband of 62 years last October, did take the condoms.
”If I get a date,” she said, ”I’m going to use one of these.”
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