Healthy Aging Resources
This resource center connects you with the latest in research, training, and more to help better coordinate and optimize care for People Aging with HIV (PAWH). You can filter the resources below by title, date, or topic/category, such as care coordination, health equity, and mental health.
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Aging with HIV: Understanding the Journey
Join Gilead Sciences and the American Society on Aging for a series of podcast conversations about caring for older adults living with HIV.
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Integrating Frailty and Functional Outcomes into Clinical Trials
Considerations of frailty and functional outcomes for better integration and representation of aging patients in clinical trials.
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HIV Clinical, Comorbid, and Social Determinants of Health are Linked with Brain Aging
Findings indicate that comorbid and social determinants of health are associated with brain aging in people with HIV, alongside traditional HIV metrics such as viral load and CD4 cell count, suggesting the need for a broadened clinical perspective on healthy aging with HIV, with additional focus on comorbidities, lifestyle changes, and social factors.
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The Science of Aging: Lessons for HIV at the Interface of Commonality and Heterogeneity
CROI Presentation: “20 years Difference between HIV + vs HIV- in this chart’ – “These things are Happening A lot Earlier for PWH than they should be, by 20 years. I would expect 80 year olds to have this level of syndromes, but these PWH are still 60 yrs old or younger.”
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HIV and Aging: Double Stigma
Older people living with HIV may experience intersectional stigma resulting from HIV and ageism. The current review summarizes the scientific literature and focuses on social isolation and lack of social support as key factors in experiencing HIV-related and aging-related stigma.
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National HIV Curriculum: HIV in Older Adults
The shift of the HIV epidemic to increasingly involve older persons highlights several health care needs: (1) medical care systems with the capacity to provide clinical services for a large cohort of older persons with HIV, (2) active screening programs to detect HIV in older persons, and (3) implementation of strategies to prevent forward transmission of HIV from older persons.
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Optimizing HIV Care for People Aging with HIV
This reference guide identifies commonly occurring health care and social needs of people aging with HIV and highlights the screenings and assessments for these needs.
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Aging with HIV: Best Practices
A conversation with with Dr Katherine Promer, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California San Diego Medical Center, where she provides primary care to people with HIV about what clinicians need to know when working with and aging population of people living with HIV.
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Older Adults with HIV/AIDS: A Growing Population
With its extensive experience providing services to meet the need of a growing, and increasingly diverse, population, ACL’s aging network plays an important role in the lives of older adults across the country.
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ADAP Directory
This one stop online center for ADAP resources provides information on better decision making for HIV related care, timely updates on HIV related medication, and assistance for advocates and medical staff.
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The Affordable Care Act and HIV/AIDS
This page from HIV.gov outlines just some of the ways the ACA has improved access to coverage for people with or at risk for HIV.
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Medicare and People with HIV
Medicare, the second largest source of federal spending on care and treatment for people with HIV, will likely play an increasingly important role for these individuals as they age, due to treatment effectiveness and as new infections continue to occur.
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How Evidence-Based Health Promotion Programs Can Support Adults with HIV/AIDS
As HIV treatment has advanced and more people are managing HIV as a chronic condition, evidence-based health promotion programs can provide support.
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Administration for Community Living: HIV/AIDS
A collection of health, wellness, and nutrition resources compiled by the Administration for Community Living.
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Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study
This landmark study is the first federally-funded longitudinal national project designed to better understand the aging, health, and well-being of sexual and gender diverse midlife and older adults.
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Use of Antiretroviral Therapy in Nursing Home Residents with HIV
Antiretroviral therapies are essential in HIV care. As people living with HIV age and their presence in nursing homes increases, it is critical to evaluate the quality of HIV care.
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Brain Aging in HIV Affected by Adverse Social Determinants of Health, Comorbidities
Social determinants of health were found to be associated with brain aging among patients with HIV infection, according to results of a retrospective case-control study published in The Lancet HIV.
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Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Aging Data Portal
The Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Aging Data Portal provides easy access to national and state level CDC data on a range of key indicators of health and well-being for older adults.
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Putting the Brakes on Accelerated Aging of Bone, Muscle from HIV Infection, Treatment
Antiretroviral cocktails can make human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, undetectable and untransmittable, but both the virus and its treatment can also accelerate aging of bone and muscle.
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HIV: A personal story
University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine spoke to one of Associate Professor Lucy Dorrell’s patients about her experiences discovering that she was HIV+.
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Infection with HIV can accelerate aging within the first two to three years of infection, study says
Researchers with University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) looked at blood samples from more than 200 men to compare those infected with HIV to a control group who did not have HIV, and scored them on five different measures of aging.
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Fatigue is associated with worse cognitive and everyday functioning in older persons with HIV
This study goes into detail about framing the relationship between fatigue, cognition, and everyday functioning in PLWH.
