Understanding geriatric models of care for older adults living with HIV: a scoping review and qualitative analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advances in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) treatment have reduced mortality rates and consequently increased the number of individuals with HIV living into older age. Despite this, people aged 50 years and older have been left behind in recent HIV treatment and prevention campaigns, and a gold-standard model of care for this population has not yet been defined. Developing evidence-based geriatric HIV models of care can support an accessible, equitable, and sustainable HIV health care system that ensures older adults have access to care that meets their needs now and in the future.

Methods

Guided by Arksey & O'Malley (2005)'s methodological framework, a scoping review was conducted to determine the key components of, identify gaps in the literature about, and p

SUBMITTER: Kokorelias KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10329351 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature