Strategies for improving mental health and wellbeing used by older people living with HIV: a qualitative investigation.

AIDS Care
Dana RosenfeldHIV and Later Life (HALL) Team

Abstract

Recent research into "successful ageing" and "resilience" in the context of ageing with HIV highlights older people living with HIV's (OPLWH) adaptations and coping strategies hitherto neglected by early research's emphasis on difficulties and challenges. Yet "resilience" and "successful ageing" are limited by their inconsistent definition, conflation of personal traits and coping strategies, normative dimension, and inattention to cultural variation and the distinctive nature of older age. This article thus adopts an interpretivist approach to how OPLWH manage the challenges to their mental health and wellbeing of ageing with HIV. Drawing on interviews with 76 OPLWH (aged 50+) living in the United Kingdom, we document both the strategies these participants use (for example, "accentuating the positive" and accessing external support) and the challenges to these strategies' success posed by the need to manage their HIV's social and clinical dimensions and prevent their HIV from dominating their lives. This points to (a) the complex overlaps between challenges to and strategies for improving or maintaining mental health and wellbeing in the context of ageing with HIV, and (b) the limitations of the "resilience" and "successful ag...Continue Reading

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Jul 18, 2018·AIDS Care·Sarah SkeenLorraine Sherr
Mar 23, 2019·International Journal of Aging & Human Development·Kathryn Almack, Andrew King
Nov 27, 2019·Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care·Kelly Kathleen O'BrienPatricia Solomon
Dec 14, 2018·Healthcare·Manoj PardasaniMebane Powell
May 5, 2021·The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences·Mark Brennan-IngMichael W Plankey
Aug 21, 2021·Qualitative Health Research·Amy AllenJulia Rozanova

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
cognitive behavioural therapy

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NVivo

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