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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Inflamm-aging: Effects of Chronic Inflammation with HIV
Advances in Antiretroviral therapy (ART) allow people with HIV to live longer with fewer medications. Join us as Dr. Peter Hunt details the connection between chronic inflammation and HIV infection and discusses care considerations and emerging research.
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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+.
