The Social Construction of Aging Among a Clinic-Based Population and Their Healthcare Workers in Zambia
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2024.1606607" target="_blank" >10.3389/ijph.2024.1606607</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Social Construction of Aging Among a Clinic-Based Population and Their Healthcare Workers in Zambia
Original language description
Objectives: We sought to understand the social construction of aging in a clinic-based population, with and without HIV, to address gaps in care for older individuals living with HIV in Zambia. Methods: Our exploratory qualitative study included 36 in-depth interviews with clinic clients and four focus group discussions with 36 professional and lay healthcare workers providing services to the clients. We identified themes based on social construction theory. Results: At the individual level, aging was multidimensional, perceived both as an achievement in the HIV era and as a period of cognitive, physical, and economic decline. In social interactions, older individuals were often stereotyped and treated as helpless, poor, and “witches.” Those living with HIV faced the additional stigma of being labeled as promiscuous. Some of the participants living without HIV refused to take daily medication for non-communicable diseases to avoid being mistaken for taking antiretroviral therapy for HIV. Older individuals wanted quality healthcare and family support to address the intersectional stigma of aging, poverty, and chronic illness. Conclusion: Multifaceted interventions are required to combat age-related prejudice, intersectional stigma, and discriminatory practices, particularly for people living with HIV. Copyright © 2024 Sharma, Mwamba, St Clair-Sullivan, Chihota, Pry, Bolton-Moore, Vinikoor, Muula, Daultrey, Gittelsohn, Mulenga, Siyumbwa, Wandeler and Vera.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Result continuities
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Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Public Health
ISSN
16618564
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Volume of the periodical
69
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2024
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
1-9
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85192068671