Geriatric HIV: living with multiple medical conditions will become the norm as population ages
aidsmap.com, 16 June 2015 - "In fifteen years' time, the clinical needs of Dutch people living with HIV will have changed substantially due to three quarters of them being over the age of 50. Overall, 84% will have at least one medical condition such as cardiovascular disease or cancer on top of their HIV, 28% will have three or more additional medical conditions and 53% will have problems with drug interactions or contraindications.
The predictions come from the most detailed analysis of likely future trends in HIV care for an ageing population of people living with HIV yet conducted, prepared by Mikaela Smit and colleagues at Imperial College London and published online last week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The findings are likely to be relevant to other Western countries with mature epidemics concentrated in gay men, the authors say."
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