Jones, HT;
Samji, A;
Cope, N;
Williams, J;
Swaden, L;
Katiyar, A;
Burns, F;
... Barber, TJ; + view all
(2022)
What problems associated with ageing are seen in a specialist service for older people living with HIV?
HIV Medicine
, 23
(3)
pp. 259-267.
10.1111/hiv.13193.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES: By 2030 the majority of the people living with HIV in the United Kingdom will be over the age of 50. HIV services globally must adapt to manage people living with HIV as they age. Currently these services are often designed based on data from the wider population or from the experiences of HIV clinicians. This article aims to help clinicians designing inclusive HIV services by presenting the most common needs identified during the first year of a specialist clinic for older people living with HIV at the Ian Charleson Day Centre, Royal Free Hospital in London, United Kingdom. METHODS: The records of all thirty-five patients attending the inaugural nine sessions were reviewed. RESULTS: The median age of attendees was 69 (53-93) with 77% being male, 63% being White, 49% being heterosexual and 97% being virally suppressed respectively. The majority (83%) met the criteria for frailty using the Fried frailty phenotype. Eighteen issues linked to ageing were identified with the most common being affective symptoms (51%), memory loss (37%) and falls (29%). CONCLUSIONS: Whilst older people living with HIV are a heterogeneous group frailty is common and appears to present earlier. HIV services either need to adapt to meet these additional needs or must support users in transitioning to existing services. We feel that our multidisciplinary model is successful in identifying problems associated with ageing in people living with HIV and could be successfully replicated elsewhere.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | What problems associated with ageing are seen in a specialist service for older people living with HIV? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/hiv.13193 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.13193 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | HIV, ageing, cognitive impairment, depression, falls, frailty, sarcopenia |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health > Infection and Population Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10141252 |
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