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"You're awfully old to have this disease"
— experiences of stigma and ageism in adults 50 years and older living with HIV/AIDS | | Author(s) | Charles A Emlet |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 46, no 6, December 2006 |
| Pages | pp 781-790 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | AIDS ; Middle aged ; Age groups [elderly] ; Ageism ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Older people living with HIV infection may be doubly stigmatised, as they are branded by both age as well as HIV status. Using semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study of 25 people aged 50+ with HIV/AIDS sought to examine whether older people with HIV/AIDS experience both ageism and HIV stigma and how those experiences are manifested in their lives. The majority of respondents (68%) experienced both ageism and HIV-associated stigma. The experiences were often separate, although some inter-related stigma did occur. Nine themes emerged from the interviews, including rejection, stereotyping, fear of contagion, violations of confidentiality, and internalised ageism. All themes fell into four categories: social discrimination, institutional discrimination, anticipatory stigma, and other. The research identified themes that may be sources of felt as well as enacted stigma and discrimination related to both ageing and HIV. This concept of double jeopardy exists in the lives of most of the people interviewed, and has relevance to the creation of appropriate intervention strategies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070926213 A |
| Classmark | CQTT: SE: BB: B:TOB: 3DP: 7T |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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