Midlife and Older Adults and HIV: Implications for Social Service Research, Practice, and Policy

by Keigher; Sharon

• ISBN13: 9780789026453
• ISBN10: 0789026457
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Get a detailed overview of the social services provided for HIV-infected midlife and older adults, and find out where social work practice with this growing population is headed! As more potent medications are being developed to treat HIV, people who have contracted the virus are living longer lives than previously expected. Survival means new side effects and increasingly complex issues, now compounded by the diseases of aging. All this presents unprecedented challenges to social service and benefit systems. Midlife and Older Adults and HIV: Implications for Social Service Research, Practice and Policy introduces policymakers and policy analysts, practitioners in the helping professions, and the public to available social services for aging adults who are living with HIV/AIDS. It also addresses midlife and older adults at risk of HIV infection as well as aging persons whose lives are affected by relatives and friends living with HIV. Midlife and Older Adults and HIV provides a comprehensive examination of this emerging field of practice. Specific chapters examine prevention, family care, vulnerability, inclusion, and the disease process itself. It lays out the broad terrain of future social work practice with HIV-infected elders and elders affected by HIV. The book concludes with reflections on survivorship during the past two decades from six older community leaders living with HIV/AIDS. It also provides current research findings, innovative conceptual models, an invaluable compendium of resource information from the National Association of HIV Over Fifty, and program ideas to address the HIV epidemic within the aging population. The issues addressed in Midlife and Older Adults and HIV include: HIV prevention initiatives coordination and integration of local service networks the health, social, and financial risks facing women with HIV the health consequences of HIV/AIDS and its interactions with normal aging the use of behavioral reinforcement methods as interventions perceptions of vulnerability to HIV among older African-American women and the role of intimate partners and much more! Midlife and Older Adults and HIV is a comprehensive resource on social services for aging adults who are living with HIV/AIDS. It serves as a record of what is known and what is presently being learned about practice in this constantly evolving field. The book is a call to action for social workers and other human service professionals to anticipate and plan for the emerging needs of persons with HIV/AIDS who are rapidly growing older. The array of topics covered in this volume also makes it ideal as a supplemental textbook in courses on HIV and aging.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
OVERVIEW
Inclusion of ``Older'' Adults with HIV	3	(6)
Cynthia Cannon Poindexter
Sharon M. Keigher
Knowledge and Use of AIDS and Aging Services by Older, HIV-Infected Adults	9	(16)
Charles A. Emlet
Perceptions of Vulnerability to HIV Among Older African American Women: The Role of Intimate Partners	25	(18)
April Winningham
Donna Richter
Sara Corwin
Cheryl Gore-Felton
Midlife Women with HIV: Health, Social, and Economic Factors Shaping Their Futures	43	(16)
Sharon M. Keigher
Patricia E. Stevens
Sandra K. Plach
Reconciling Successful Aging with HIV: A Biopsychosocial Overview	59	(20)
David E. Vance
F. Patrick Robinson
BRIDGING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Compensating for Cognitive Deficits in Persons Aged 50 and Over with HIV/AIDS: A Pilot Study of a Cognitive Intervention	79	(20)
M. M. Neundorfer
C. J. Camp
M. M. Lee
M. J. Skrajner
M. L. Malone
J. R. Carr
Six Champions Speak About Being Over 50 and Living with HIV	99	(20)
Cynthia Cannon Poindexter
Resource Information: HIV Over Fifty	119	(4)
Nathan L. Linsk
Index	123