Abstract
Assessment of Satisfaction with Life among Elderly Patients Receiving HIV Care and Treatment in Mulago HIV Clinic: A Chronic Illness Quality of Life Model
Highlights
Effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) has increased survival in individuals with HIV, resulting in an increasing number of older individuals living with HIV
This study aimed at assessing satisfaction with life among elderly HIV patients attending Mulago HIV Clinic
The study showed that only variables that were significantly associated at multivariate level are, disagreeing that other patients are seen before you when you are first to arrive, which had an odds ratio of 2.87, disagreeing that your employer can never promote you which had an odds ratio of 6.87 compared to agreeing, not being sure whether friend or family member cannot share room/utensil/clothes with you reduced the odds of being satisfied by 95% when compared to agreeing and disagreeing that friend or family member blames you for not getting better with an odds ratio of 5.65 compared to agreeing
Summary
Effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) has increased survival in individuals with HIV, resulting in an increasing number of older individuals living with HIV. In the United States, among persons living with HIV at year-end 2013, 42% were aged 50 years or older, 6% were age 65 or older, and trends suggest that these proportions will increase steadily [1]. Care of patients with HIV increasingly will involve adults 60 to 80 years of age, a population for which data from clinical trials or pharmacokinetic (PK) studies are very limited. At the end of 2014, estimated 428,724 people aged 50 and over were living with diagnosed HIV in the United States. From 2010 to 2014, HIV diagnoses among all people aged 50 and over decreased by 10%. In 2014, 40% of people aged 55 and older had late-stage infection (AIDS) at the time of HIV diagnosis [1]
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