HIV & Aging

Living and Aging Well with HIV: The Need for Better Mental Health Care

2021

Mark Brennan-Ing

In this interview with Dr. Regina Koepp for the Psychology of Aging podcast, Mark Brennan-Ing, Brookdale’s director of research and evaluation, shares important information about

• HIV among people aged 50 and over
• The social, cultural, and medical reasons that adults 50 and older live with HIV longer before getting a diagnosis
• Reasons why people living with HIV might experience depression at five times that of the general population
• What we can do to help meet the medical and mental health needs of aging adults with HIV