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Summer 2011 Issue of mental health AIDS

June 2011

The quarterly biopsychosocial research update on HIV and mental health, mental health AIDS, is sponsored by the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and is disseminated free of charge through the SAMHSA Web site.

The Summer 2011 issue features an article titled, “Positively Golden: Advances in Aging with HIV (Part 1)”

Although it is estimated that by 2015, about half of the adults living with HIV in the U.S. will be 50 years of age or older, and many older adults living with HIV experience depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, HIV-related stigma, and a variety of comorbid health conditions, mental health interventions that have been tailored specifically for this population are essentially nonexistent.

This is the first of a two-part series. Part 1 highlights recent research findings on medical and neurocognitive concerns associated with HIV and aging. A characterization of “successful cognitive aging” with HIV is presented, as are performance-based measures to identify functional impairment attributable to aging and HIV, and cognitive remediation strategies for use with clients who exhibit cognitive decline while aging with HIV.

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