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, or one of the 7Ms.
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Addressing Health Disparities in HIV: Introduction to the Special Issue, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes: December 15, 2021
This article is about how racial and ethnic minorities specifically in California are impacted by HIV/AIDS. It discusses how they tailored their programs to target low-income populations. This particular study was done to prevent further HIV infections in at-risk populations.
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Gilead Sciences 2021 HIV Age Positively Report
This report from Gilead Sciences reviews resources related to HIV and aging created by HIV Age Positively program grantees.
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Barriers and opportunities for the mental health of LGBT older adults and older people living with HIV: A systematic literature review
The study was conducted to review current literature regarding accessing mental health care among LGBT older adults and older PLWH. The results displayed a lack of provider competency in caring for LGBT patients, lower rates of insurance coverage, greater mental health burden, social and structural determinants of health, policy solutions, and technology and health literacy.
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Aging With HIV Comes With Other Health Concerns
This article from POZ notes that a large study found that heart disease and mental health conditions are driving use of multiple medications as people age. People aging with HIV develop more chronic conditions and start to take more medications.
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Aging With HIV Institute and Roundtable
This roundtable at SYNC 2021 brought together experts living and aging with HIV (15 years or more) to review and reflect upon the current capacity and future constraints of the HIV and aging care and prevention services sectors, and the discrete needs that follow.
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Methamphetamine and cardiac disease among people with HIV infection
This study evaluates the association between methamphetamine use and cardiac disease among PWH. The study displayed no association between methamphetamine abuse/dependence and a diagnosis of myocardial infarction or heart failure was found among PWH.
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Factors affecting statin uptake among people living with HIV: primary care provider perspectives
This study examined clinic leadership and provider perceptions of factors associated with statin prescribing for persons with HIV receiving care in eight community health clinics across Los Angeles, California.
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Aging and on PrEP: Considerations for PrEP in People 50 Years of Age and Older
Ensuring older adults have access to PrEP is a key step towards ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S. This webinar presents considerations around medical, counseling, and educational strategies to improve the uptake of PrEP among people aged 50 and older. It highlights the benefits and opportunities of using PrEP in this population in efforts to decrease the rate of new HIV infections among people over 50.
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A Malawian Perspective on Aging and HIV/AIDS
Although we live in an aging population, attention is far from focused on those 50 or older when it comes to HIV/AIDS in Malawi. HealthHIV Fellow Delroy White recently found himself asking, “What happens to older people when most medical interventions are directed towards younger populations?”
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Many Folks Who Finally Disclose Their HIV Status Discover New Freedom
“I feel my heart releasing,” the actor Billy Porter said when he ended his 14-year silence earlier this year. Every day, folks who are newly living openly with HIV experience what he’s talking about.
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HealthHIV State of Aging with HIV™ Second Annual National Survey
This comprehensive national survey further underscores the ongoing needs and experiences of people aging, thriving, and sometimes struggling with the HIV; many of whom are among the first generation of people diagnosed with HIV.
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Links Between Inflammation, Mood, and Physical Function Among Older Adults With HIV
This paper examines relationships between psychosocial factors, inflammatory markers, and age-related health outcomes among older PLWH.
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Positive Psychological Factors are Linked to Successful Cognitive Aging Among Older Persons Living with HIV/AIDS
This paper examines relationships between psychological factors and successful cognitive aging in PWH.
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Current Challenges and Solutions in Research and Clinical Care of Older Persons Living with HIV
This conference summary from AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses looks at the current state of research around inflamm-aging and other age-related comorbidities in PWH.
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HIV in the United States by Age
While HIV affects all people in the United States and dependent areas, some age groups are especially affected. Get the latest data on HIV by age from the CDC.
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HIV complex care and care coordination: the nurse’s role
Articles suggest that nurses specializing in HIV care are an effective approach to a new era of life-long HIV care. Community nurses whose role is to create and conduct CCPs in a small clinic would enable nurses to work directly with patients to increase the effectiveness of the CCP.
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Senotherapeutics for HIV and aging
Senescence is a hallmark of aging-related diseases that is characterized by stable cell cycle arrest and chronic inflammation. Chronic HIV-1 infection predisposes patients to aging-related illnesses and is similarly marked by a senescence-like phenotype. A better understanding of the role of HIV-1 in aging will inform the development of therapeutics aimed at eliminating senescent cells that drive accelerated physiologic aging.
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Long-Term Suppressive cART Is Not Sufficient to Restore Intestinal Permeability and Gut Microbiota Compositional Changes
The study explores the long-term effects of cART on markers of gut damage, microbial translocation, and paired gut/blood microbiota composition, with a focus on the role exerted by different drug classes. The results conclude that 24 months of cART only affects the gastrointestinal tract minorly.
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Highlights from the Fourth Annual State of Aging with HIV Survey
Now in its fourth year, this national survey captures the experiences of people aging with HIV (PAWH) and the professionals who support them.
