CCO Infectious Disease Podcast

Empowering Patients to “Age Healthy” With HIV

Episode Summary

At a certain point, we must ask our patients with HIV, “How do you want to age?” The best thing we can do is make sure they know we truly care for them and, of more importance, to make sure our patients learn how to love themselves.

Episode Notes

In this episode, Cristina Mussini, MD, shares her approach to caring for aging patients with HIV. This includes not just focusing on their HIV, but their over well-being, such as:

• Maintaining a healthy weight, eating healthy and staying mobile 
• Overcoming the obstacle of stigma from society and self-stigma
• Empowering patients to care for themselves
• In women who are often caregivers most of their life:
  • Encouraging self-care
  • Staying up to date with preventive care such as cancer screenings (eg, mammography, annual Pap smear, and colonoscopy)
• Teaching patients to love themselves
• Making sure the patient knows you truly care for them

Faculty:

Cristina Mussini, MD
Head of Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
Full Professor of Infectious Diseases
Infectious Diseases Clinics, University Hospital
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Modena, Italy

Link to full program:
https://bit.ly/3KkF4iZ