Name: Carmen
163 Week 9
Pre-Class Student Worksheets
Complete these worksheets. You will share/use your work during class.
Task
Determining the importance of information
Clustering related information
Predicting potential complications
Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant information
Consider the aspects of the concept of sexuality discussed in your Giddens text. List them in the
table. Then list how you will apply those aspects to the care of the elderly. The purpose of this
task is to demonstrate ability to apply your readings to the elderly population and integrate that
knowledge to predict their needs and plan care. Use the information in both the Giddens text and
the Williams text.
Aspects of the Concept of How that Aspect Relates to the Care of the Elderly
Sexuality
40 % suffer from sexual dysfunction
Adult female sexuality
Erectile dysfunction (ED) Ejaculatory dysfunction
Adult male sexuality
Note differences between "adult" and "elder" sexuality
Don’t assume elderly can’t have sex. Increased health
Elder sexuality conditions=more challenging=decreased sex drive
Heart condition
Increased fall risk
Risk factors for the elderly
Chronic health conditions, heart rate, respirations, acute/chronic pain,
fatigue, depression, anxiety, multiple/casual partners, unprotected sex
Individual risk factors
More common in elderly
Sexual dysfunction
Safe sex, contraception, STI, healthy, resources, pt. education,
counseling, referral
Primary prevention
STI screening, intimate partner, violence
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, Name: Carmen
Secondary prevention STI screening, intimate partner, violence
Phosphodiesterase -5 inhibitors
Pharm: antibiotic, hormone replacement
Collaborative Interventions
1. Encourage verbalizing concerns.
2. Provide privacy.
Nursing Interventions 3. Protect dignity of confused
Task
Determining the importance of information
Clustering related information
Predicting potential complications
Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant information
Consider the interrelated concepts on page 205 in the Giddens text.
Insert information for each interrelated concept as it related to the elderly.
How that Concept Relates to the Care of the
Interrelated Concepts for Sexuality Elderly
Preoccupies mind
Anxiety
STIs, safer sex, infertility/fertility,
breast/cervical cancer, menopause
Reproduction
O2 = impaired body image
SOB, fatigue, and depression contribute to
Gas exchange sexual dysfunction
Stimulates fight or flight-freeze-
Neg: impacts
Stress
Positive touch/sexual intimacy: stimulates
endorphins, contributes to sexual dysfunction
Pain
How the patient copes
Other concepts you believe may also be
interrelated
Updated 02/09/2024 2
163 Week 9
Pre-Class Student Worksheets
Complete these worksheets. You will share/use your work during class.
Task
Determining the importance of information
Clustering related information
Predicting potential complications
Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant information
Consider the aspects of the concept of sexuality discussed in your Giddens text. List them in the
table. Then list how you will apply those aspects to the care of the elderly. The purpose of this
task is to demonstrate ability to apply your readings to the elderly population and integrate that
knowledge to predict their needs and plan care. Use the information in both the Giddens text and
the Williams text.
Aspects of the Concept of How that Aspect Relates to the Care of the Elderly
Sexuality
40 % suffer from sexual dysfunction
Adult female sexuality
Erectile dysfunction (ED) Ejaculatory dysfunction
Adult male sexuality
Note differences between "adult" and "elder" sexuality
Don’t assume elderly can’t have sex. Increased health
Elder sexuality conditions=more challenging=decreased sex drive
Heart condition
Increased fall risk
Risk factors for the elderly
Chronic health conditions, heart rate, respirations, acute/chronic pain,
fatigue, depression, anxiety, multiple/casual partners, unprotected sex
Individual risk factors
More common in elderly
Sexual dysfunction
Safe sex, contraception, STI, healthy, resources, pt. education,
counseling, referral
Primary prevention
STI screening, intimate partner, violence
Updated 02/09/2024 1
, Name: Carmen
Secondary prevention STI screening, intimate partner, violence
Phosphodiesterase -5 inhibitors
Pharm: antibiotic, hormone replacement
Collaborative Interventions
1. Encourage verbalizing concerns.
2. Provide privacy.
Nursing Interventions 3. Protect dignity of confused
Task
Determining the importance of information
Clustering related information
Predicting potential complications
Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant information
Consider the interrelated concepts on page 205 in the Giddens text.
Insert information for each interrelated concept as it related to the elderly.
How that Concept Relates to the Care of the
Interrelated Concepts for Sexuality Elderly
Preoccupies mind
Anxiety
STIs, safer sex, infertility/fertility,
breast/cervical cancer, menopause
Reproduction
O2 = impaired body image
SOB, fatigue, and depression contribute to
Gas exchange sexual dysfunction
Stimulates fight or flight-freeze-
Neg: impacts
Stress
Positive touch/sexual intimacy: stimulates
endorphins, contributes to sexual dysfunction
Pain
How the patient copes
Other concepts you believe may also be
interrelated
Updated 02/09/2024 2
