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| Health care needs and services delivery for older persons with HIV/AIDS | | Author(s) | Stephen Crystal, Usha Sambamoorthi |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 20, no 6, November 1998 |
| Pages | pp 739-759 |
| Keywords | AIDS ; Needs [elderly] ; Health services ; Usage [services] ; Age groups [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Health services research on HIV and AIDS has paid little attention to variations by age in health care needs and use. This article brings together information on age differences in HIV health care needs and use patterns to shed light on distinctive aspects of health services needs and use by older people with HIV. Age differences in social and economic characteristics, medical comorbidity, psychiatric comorbidity, survival, access to medical care, and patterns in use of in-patient services are examined. Existing literature suggests that delayed diagnosis, biologically based differences in progression of HIV disease, and co-morbid health conditions unrelated to HIV all may contribute to the shorter time from diagnosis to death among patients. Event history analyses of the hazard and duration of hospitalisation among individuals with AIDS in the New Jersey Medicaid programme indicated that those aged 50 years and older were hospitalised less often but for longer stays, suggesting that there may be opportunities to substitute care at home for some care provided in the hospital to older people with HIV. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981116406 A |
| Classmark | CQTT: IK: L: QLD: BB: 7T |
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