aging with HIV – Psychology Benefits Society

December 1, 2014December 12, 2014Administrator

9 Things You Should Know About HIV and Aging

By Maggie Chartier, PsyD and Monica Rivera Mindt, PhD (Members, APA Committee on Psychology and AIDS) By 2015, an estimated one out of every two people living with HIV in the United States will be over 50. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC, 2012) estimated that the number of people living with HIV […]

August 25, 2014December 12, 2014Administrator

Aging with HIV: New Research Sheds Light on a Growing Population

By David Martin, PhD, ABPP (Senior Director, APA Office on AIDS) The Office on AIDS is pleased to have played a small supporting role in the publication of the just-released special issue of Behavioral Medicine, in which six articles on HIV and aging were published this month. These articles represent an important extension of existing knowledge […]

October 4, 2013December 12, 2014Administrator

Aging and HIV: How Can Psychology Better Serve the AIDS Generation?

By Perry N. Halkitis, PhD, MS, MPH Living out your golden years with HIV – once unimaginable – is becoming a reality for hundreds of thousands of Americans. The AIDS epidemic in the United States is vastly different from when we first encountered this disease in 1981. After hundreds of thousands of deaths, especially for […]