Optimizing HIV Care for People Aging with HIV

The purpose of this reference guide is to identify commonly occurring health care and social needs of people aging with HIV and to highlight the screenings and assessments for these needs. This reference guide serves as a starting point for the health care team as it builds and expands its knowledge and practice of serving people aging with HIV.

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.

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. Armed with the array of programs funded by ACL to help older adults stay healthy, active and living in their communities, the network is helping support the healthy aging of people living with HIV.

ADAP Directory

One stop online resource center for ADAP resources information including better decision making for HIV related care, timely updates on HIV related medication, and assistance for advocates and medical staff.

The Affordable Care Act and HIV/AIDS

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides Americans—including those with and at risk for HIV—better access to health care coverage and more health insurance options. Here are just some of the ways the ACA has improved access to coverage for people with or at risk for HIV.

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.

Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study​

Aging with Pride paints a vivid portrait of the lives of sexual and gender diverse midlife and older adults, documenting a complex relationship between risk and resilience. The 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.

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. We determine the rate of ART use and examine individual and facility level characteristics associated with no ART use in a nationally representative long stay NH residents with HIV.