Stop misbehaving, you seniors! No, I don't mean you eighteen year olds out there. According to Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Vice-Provost of University of Pennsylvania, he has seen an increase in sexually transmitted diseases in retirement communities around the country. One family dropped off their father at a senior residence and three female residents stopped by to welcome him.
A woman friend - age 85 - but looks twenty years younger - had an appointment with a nutritionist and his first question was "Are you dating?" When he discovered her true age he got up and left the room and never returned.
Another female friend swims at the Y three times a week as therapy after knee surgery. A man she meets casually there one day confronted her with "Is your husband dead?" Is this the new pick-up line?
Finally, an octogenarian friend who is esconced in a plush senior community invited me to lunch and he brought with him a female companion who during the meal said "Vince is a keeper!" WOW!
It appears that more than knitting and bingo is going on within those walls.
tjs
http://seniorhousingnews.com/2014/01/21/sex-and-the-senior-living-community-n-y-times/
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