Despondency Among HIV-Positive Older Men and Women in Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorWright, Stuart
dc.contributor.authorZalwango, Flavia
dc.contributor.authorSeeley, Janet
dc.contributor.authorMugisha, Joseph
dc.contributor.authorScholten, Francien
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-11T06:47:00Z
dc.date.available2021-12-11T06:47:00Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractForty people over 60 years of age took part in longitudinal research over the course of a year on the impact of the HIVepidemic in southern Uganda. In this paper we focus mainly on the data from 26 of the 40 who were HIV-positive. While we observed that feelings of depression were frequently experienced by many of the people in our study, the state of ‘being depressed’ was not constant. Participants regularly expressed economic frustration (because of a lack of money to buy food and other commodities including sugar and soap); medical problems (including those related to HIV) as well as old age, the burden of dependents (including concerns about school fees for grandchildren), feelings of sadness and isolation, and a lack of support from others, as well as stigma, whether real or perceived. However, while worries, sorrow and despondent thoughts were reported in many of the interviews across the study, moods fluctuated moving from happiness and hope, to sadness and despair, from month to month. Concerns regarding the psychological wellbeing amongst older people, including those living with HIVand older carers in Uganda deserve greater attentionen_US
dc.identifier.citationWright, S., Zalwango, F., Seeley, J., Mugisha, J., & Scholten, F. (2012). Despondency among HIV-positive older men and women in Uganda. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 27(4), 319-333.DOI 10.1007/s10823-012-9178-xen_US
dc.identifier.other10.1007/s10823-012-9178-x
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/272
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Cross-Cultural Gerontologyen_US
dc.subjectDespondence .en_US
dc.subjectDepression .en_US
dc.subjectHIV and AIDS .en_US
dc.subjectHope .en_US
dc.subjectSocial isolation .en_US
dc.subjectUgandaen_US
dc.titleDespondency Among HIV-Positive Older Men and Women in Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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