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    AIDS and older persons: an international perspective

    Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2002
    The impact of the worldwide AIDS epidemic on persons age 50 and over has received relatively little consideration except in the United States where interest has focused almost exclusively on older persons living with AIDS or at risk of infection.
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    Health impacts of co-residence with and caregiving to persons with HIV/AIDS on older parents in Thailand

    Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2002
    An emerging literature indicates that parents are main caregivers to persons with HIV and AIDS (PHAs) in Thailand, especially during the late stages of illness.
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    The elderly and AIDS: coping strategies and health consequences in rural Tanzania

    Population Council, USA, 2002
    This paper, published by the Population Council, examines the effects on the elderly of the death from AIDS of prime-aged adults, using household survey data from northwestern Tanzania in 1991-94. The paper reveals that a significant proportion of adults suffering from AIDS return to their parents’ home shortly before death.
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    Older people, children and the HIV/AIDS nexus: the African situation

    Ageing and Life Course (WHO), 2000
    Outline of a WHO project to produce evidence on the problem and facilitate grass roots and macro-level partnerships that would ensure the support of older people as assets in all areas of care related to HIV/ AIDS.
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    Parents providing care to adult sons and daughters with HIV/AIDS in Thailand

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    This report is a qualitative analysis of the circumstances and consequences of parental caregiving to adult children with AIDS in Thailand based on open-ended interviews, primarily with parents of adult children who died of AIDS.The results reveal the circumstances that lead to parental caregiving, the tasks involved and the stress they created, how parents coped with this stress, and the conse

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