NEW YORK -- 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?"
But this was no joke.
HIV, AIDS Don't Discriminate By Age, Experts Say
I would rather have seconds on the Jello.
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.... at first,
Then I recalled the instances in my area where nursing home workers raped elderly patients.
Years ago I worked in a nursing home and there was one elderly confused gentleman patient who tried to visit the beds of female ones.
I'm not up to speed if HIV testing is routine on hospital admissions as it is for syphilis. Some places here required chest-xrays for food workers, but I don't know if they still do.
On the face of it, the distribution seems silly. But considering that age doesn't necessarily render one sexless, maybe it could have some merit.
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George. Getting close for the old folks home in the next few years, but with my recent heart condition, blood pressure, & birthday, I would be more up to the Jell-o right now, but that may change. 
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Do not even think of the old folks home. Eat more Jello-O John. The day they talk about shipping me up to the reservation on the hill, is the day I get the guns out. Ever see what they feed you up there? Oh man, its jail house food. What ever I have left is probably in my head, but I sure ain't going to waste it up there in "One flew over the Coo-Koos nest"
George (Hanging in there)
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