Managing the Older Adult Patient with HIV

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Guaraldi, Giovanni (Editor), Falutz, Julian (Editor), Mussi, Chiara (Editor), Silva, Ana Rita (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Adis, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Infectious diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.

This concise, clinically focused pocket guide offers a complete overview of HIV in the older patient and reviews the latest guidelines, treatment options, clinical trials, and management of HIV within this subgroup. The easily accessible text offers infectious disease specialists and other health ca...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Pathophysiology of HIV/AIDS
• HIV associated non-AIDS conditions in patients aging with HIV
• Comorbid conditions and older adults with HIV
• Frailty in HIV
• Disability
• Geriatric syndromes
• HIV prevention and screening in older adults
• Multidimensional geriatric assessment in older patients with HIV
• Antiretroviral treatment in older patients
• HIV, aging, and polypharmacy
• Nutrition and physical exercise in older patients with HIV
• Smoking cessation in patients with HIV
• Self-management.