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HIV/AIDS and older adults : challenges for individuals, families, and communities / Charles A. Emlet, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease) in old age.
- AIDS (Disease) in old age--Social aspects.
- Older people--Health and hygiene.
- Older people.
- HIV-positive persons.
- AIDS (Disease)--Age factors.
- AIDS (Disease).
- HIV infections--Social aspects.
- HIV infections.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 eff
- Contents:
- 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
- Nursing home experiences of older African Americans with HIV/AIDS: issues for future research / by Emily J. Fox-Hill, Deborah V. Gibson, and Veroncia F. Engle
- "It don't matter what people say as long as I love you": experiencing stigma when raising an HIV-infected grandchild / by Cynthia Cannon Poindexter
- Older adults, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS: preparing for the future crisis / James M. Topolski ... [et al.]
- Sustaining a coalition: case study: the New York Association on HIV over Fifty / by Kathleen M. Nokes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-96438-7
- 9786611964382
- 0-8261-9769-8
- OCLC:
- 476263417
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