Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: HIV/AIDS: Implications for Older Adult Patients

Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: HIV/AIDS: Implications for Older Adult Patients
University of Arizona College of Medicine
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Product ID: 20690

Abstract: 
HIV/AIDS: Implications for Older Adult Patients is one of a continuing series of practical, evidence based, Provider Fact Sheets which summarize key geriatric topics and provide clinically useful assessments and interventions. Initially developed for remote, rural clinical sites, they are useful for students and health care professionals from many fields and across a very broad range of health care settings.
Estimated time to complete: 
30 minutes

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Educational objectives: 
Objectives:
1. State the current CDC recommendations for HIV screening of older adults
2. List common symptoms in older adults that can be symptoms of HIV infection
3. State whether and why older adults might be at increased risk for adverse effects from drugs used to treat HIV infection
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 
Subscribers to POGOe are free to reprint Elder Care on their own stationery or in other publications without obtaining specific permission, so long as
(1) content is not changed, 
(2) no one is charged a fee to use or read the publication, 
(3) authors and their affiliated institutions are noted without change, and 
(4) the reprint includes the following statement: “Reprinted courtesy of the Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center."
Publications from, presentations from, and/or citations to this product: 
The Elder Care provider sheets are occasionally published in the Arizona Geriatrics Society Journal, which is published twice yearly.
Date posted: 
Mon, 07/26/2010
Date last updated: 
Thu, 12/16/2010
CME credits available: 
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
No
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Learning resource types: 
Other Sponsors: Arizona Center on Aging

Contact person/corresponding author: 
Dr. Barry Weiss (bdweiss@u.arizona.edu)
Authors: 
Dr. Ronald Goldschmidt
Dr. Cristina Gruta
Dr. Mina Matin
NLM Citation:
Goldschmidt, R, Gruta, C and Matin, M. Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: HIV/AIDS: Implications for Older Adult Patients. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2010 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20690
APA Citation:
Goldschmidt, R, Gruta, C and Matin, M. (2010). Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: HIV/AIDS: Implications for Older Adult Patients. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20690

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I teach in a Geriatric Advanced Nursing Program, I found this information helpful to our students. Thank you.