Open AccessDepressive symptoms, physical symptoms, and health-related quality of life among older adults with HIV
Author(s) -
Blair Olson,
Wilson Vincent,
Jaimie P. Meyer,
Trace Kershaw,
Kathleen J. Sikkema,
Timothy G. Heckman,
Nathan B. Hansen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
quality of life research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1573-2649
pISSN - 0962-9343
DOI - 10.1007/s11136-019-02271-0
Subject(s) - quality of life (healthcare) , medicine , depression (economics) , depressive symptoms , public health , gerontology , population , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , health related quality of life , psychiatry , anxiety , disease , environmental health , nursing , family medicine , economics , macroeconomics , pathology
In the United States, approximately 45% of persons living with HIV (PLHIV) are ≥ 50 years of age. Many older PLHIV have multi-morbidities that complicate HIV infection and/or interfere with, or are exacerbated by, antiretroviral treatment. Physical health symptoms and psychiatric disorders, particularly depression, can worsen life quality in older PLHIV.