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With increased healthy lifestyles and medication to assist with the natural decline in the ability perform sexually, people are still sexually active into their 80’s and beyond. With the fear of pregnancy passed and not growing up with rampant sexually transmitted desiase, safe sex is not being practiced as often as it should be among the active seniors. While young adults fear pregnancy and getting HIV which could turn into AIDS down the road, the retirees know other health issues associated with advance will end their life before AIDS. Some of the symptoms like dementia and wasting syndrom are the same for HIV as well as other illnesses relating to advanced aging. Often an retiree will not be open about their sexual activity with their doctor, so the doctor won’t test for STD. The older sexually active adult grew up in a time when those things were kept very private.