Promoting Aging and Thriving With HIV (PATH)

Indiana University

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Geriatric Assessment; Geriatric; HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus; HIV; HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)

Treatments: Behavioral: Promoting Aging and Thriving with HIV (PATH)-Implementation of a Tailored Geriatric Assessment and Management Strategy for HIV Care Settings

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT07192419

27767

K76AG064545-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The pilot is an intervention of a geriatric assessment and management tool (PATH) in outpatient HIV clinics.

Full description

This will be a Pilot, two-arm, randomized parallel-group, clinical trial with blinded research staff of a Geriatric assessment and management tool vs usual care to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of the tool on quality of life for older adults with HIV.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 50 or older
• Receive HIV care (at least 1 visit at the same site within the past 12 months) from either Eskenazi Health IDC or LifeCare clinics,
• Able to provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are long-term nursing home residents
• Patients who are receiving geriatric care services, however will liberalize this criteria if difficulty with recruitment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care participants will receive HIV and aging information before their regular medical appointment.

PATH

Experimental group

Description:

The PATH group will undergo an aging assessment using the PATH toolkit before their regular medical appointment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Promoting Aging and Thriving with HIV (PATH)-Implementation of a Tailored Geriatric Assessment and Management Strategy for HIV Care Settings