Figueroa Lab

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NIH R01 · 2024

Improving Healthcare Quality and Equity For Older Adults with HIV Under Value-Based Care Models

Project Summary Life expectancy for people living with HIV (PWH) has increased substantially in the antiretroviral therapy (ART) era. Consequently, the Medicare program is anticipating a “silver tsunami” of PWH aging into program. There are substantial concerns about how HIV will affect treatment decisions, quality of care, and clinical outcomes of older PWH with age-associated multimorbidity, like Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and mental illness. Despite these concerns, we currently lack a national, comprehensive understanding of how quality and outcomes have changed for PWH over time, or the key patient, drug plan, market, community, and…

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