HIV AIDS and older adults : challenges for individuals, families, and communities

This volume focuses on the ways in which HIV/AIDS can affect older adults. The chapters in this book discuss the variety of HIV/AIDS problems that we face at the individual, family, and community levels. Topics examined include demographics and epidemiological aspects of HIV disease with this population; prevention of HIV disease; issues impacting individuals in a medical, psychological, and social context; and service needs. Originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Mental Health and Aging, the volume contains new chapters on demographics, HIV prevention and education, and effective coalition building among systems of care. Contributors include Diane Zablotsky, Michael Kennedy, Janice Nichols, and Timothy Heckman, among others. For Further Information, Please Click Here!

Emlet (social work, University of Washington) collects recent work on the impact of HIV/AIDS on people 50 years of age and older, looking at problems and issues at the individual, family, and community levels. HIV-associated dementia and aging, depression in older adults living with HIV disease, and nursing home experiences of older African Americans are some topics explored. While much of the material was originally published as a special issues of the Journal of Mental Health and Aging, new chapters have been added on demographics, prevention, and coalition building across systems of care. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Reviewer:David O. Staats, MD(University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center)
Description:This multiauthored book on HIV infections in older adults covers a wide range of issues.
Purpose:Its purpose is to demonstrate advances in knowledge in approaching HIV infections in persons over 50 and to demonstrate the range of issues that HIV poses for older persons in this country. These are all excellent objectives that the authors carry off well.
Audience:All healthcare providers who deal with HIV infections in older persons will find this a useful reference.
Features:The range of approaches here is as interesting as the contents: grandparenting/raising an HIV-infected grandchild, living well past age 50 with HIV infection acquired years earlier, acquiring HIV infections after age 50, risk factors for acquiring HIV in persons over 50, and education about safer sex for persons over 50.
Assessment:This book is written mostly from a social sciences perspective. Not as much has been written about the medical management of HIV in persons over 50 -- how the comorbid conditions of older persons and HIV interact. Treatment of HIV is fairly well tolerated in older persons. In the future, these areas of knowledge will fuse. For now, this is a useful book on all accounts. Some of the key authors cited in references in this book died from AIDS themselves -- this work stands as a poignant memorial to them.

This volume focuses on the ways in which HIV/AIDS can affect older adults. The chapters in this book discuss the variety of HIV/AIDS problems that we face at the individual, family, and community levels. Topics examined include demographics and epidemiological aspects of HIV disease with this population; prevention of HIV disease; issues impacting individuals in a medical, psychological, and social context; and service needs. Originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Mental Health and Aging, the volume contains new chapters on demographics, HIV prevention and education, and effective coalition building among systems of care. Contributors include Diane Zablotsky, Michael Kennedy, Janice Nichols, and Timothy Heckman, among others.

For Further Information, Please Click Here! Assessing the progress and promise of research on midlife and older adults and HIV/AIDS / by Diane Zablotsky and Michael Kennedy Prevention of HIV disease in older adults / by Janice E. Nichols Depressive symptoms in older adults living with HIV disease: applications of the chronic illness quality of life model / by Timothy G. Heckman, Arlene Kochman, and Kathleen J. Sikkema HIV-associated dementia and aging / by Victor G. Valcour and Ned Sacktor Mental health dimensions of HIV/AIDS in women over 50 / by Kathleen M. Tangenberg Service priorities, use, and needs: views of older and younger consumers living with HIV/AIDS / by Charles A. Emlet and James P. Berghuis Annotation There are many ways in which HIV/AIDS can affect older adults. The chapters focus on the variety of HIV/AIDS problems faced at the individual, family, and community levels. Topics examined include demographics and epidemiological aspects of HIV disease with this population, prevention of HIV disease, issues impacting individuals in a medical, psychological, and social context, and service needs. Originally explored in a special issue of the Journal of Mental Health and Aging, this volume contains new chapters on demographics, HIV prevention and education, and effective coalition building among systems of care Clinicians were first introduced to HIV infection and AIDS among older patients when colleagues reported that these conditions were found in patients who did not report any risk factors but were presenting the symptoms.