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 This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1.
Older people may withdraw from sexual expression due to a social perception that sexuality decreases with age, rather than from physical changes with aging.
   
 
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Question 2.
Physiological changes generally impair sexual functioning in older adults.
   
 
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Question 3.
Marital status has more influence on a woman's sexuality than it does on a man's.
   
 
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Question 4.
Menopause is considered to have occurred when 12 consecutive months have passed without a menstrual period.
   
 
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Question 5.
Prostate cancer is more fatal to men than breast cancer is to women.
   
 
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Question 6.
A useful model for sexuality in older people is to emulate the young.
   
 
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Question 7.
Older lesbians are open about their sexual orientation.
   
 
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Question 8.
Older women are more likely than men to face socioeconomic barriers to meeting new partners.
   
 
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Question 9.
Sexual activity is necessary for healthy and productive aging.
   
 
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Question 10.
Older people should be encouraged to receive rather than to give sexual pleasure.
   
 
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