Patients with TB usually present with fever, cough, dyspnea on exertion, weight loss and night sweats. The chest x-ray can reveal cavitary apical disease of the upper lobes. However, HIV-infected patients with sputum culture-positive and AFB-positive tuberculosis may present with a normal chest...
However, a focus on reproductive ages, ageism, taboos, stigma and limited resources, has contributed to a neglect of older adults’ sexuality as broadly defined by the World Health Organization (WHO). We used qualitative methods to explore the attitudes and perceptions of sexuality and sexual ...
9 As a result, diagnoses and treatment of STDs and HIV/AIDS may go unrecognized, thus jeopardizing the health of older people and their partners and, by default, dismissing an integral part of life for older people. For the duration of this discussion, “older adults” includes people 50 ...
While younger adults (15–49 years) form the majority of the population living with HIV, older adults (≥50 years) infected with HIV face multiple challenges related to the aging process and HIV. We explored the experiences of older persons infecte
Opioid misuse doesn't discriminate by age — and rates are rising steadily among adults aged 55 and up,new researchshows. "You can still use recreational drugs at an older age. You can have STDs at an older age, but we don't think about it, I think, because of stereotypes about what...
Older adults with HIV have an increased risk of dementia, diabetes, frailty, depression, osteoporosis, and some cancers, compared to those who are HIV negative [10,11,12]. Comorbidities commonly associated with ageing (e.g., diabetes) have been found to increase the risk of opportunistic infec...
- 《Aids Patient Care & Stds》 被引量: 2发表: 2016年 Cognitive Function and Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults with HIV Author(s): Jang, Hannah Jin sun | Advisor(s): Portillo, Carmen; Wagner, Laura | Abstract: Combination antiretroviral therapy has dramatically decreased AIDS-...
Emlet CA. “You’re awfully old to have this disease”: experiences of stigma and ageism in adults 50 years and older living with HIV/AIDS. Gerontologist. 2006;46(6):781–790. doi:10.1093/geront/46.6.781 (Open in a new window)PubMed (Open in a new window)Web of Science ®(Op...
Using in-depth interviews with 41 older adults living in the East York area of Toronto, we used a combination of quantitative coding, thematic analysis, and individual profiling to analyze their social network structure, relational autonomy, and digital media use. Our findings render a rather ...
older adults as the main participants or where the vast majority of participants were of mean/median age 50 years or older. Studies focusing on other age groups besides older persons were excluded (i.e., children, adolescents and younger adults under the age of 50 years). Abstracts did not...