Florida-based physician Jonathan S. Appelbaum, MD, started caring for patients with HIV in 1985, shortly after the AIDS epidemic began. As he has aged over the years, so have many of his patients, piquing his medical interest in the intersection of HIV and aging.
“We’ve seen our patients do better and live longer, and we’ve also seen older patients continue to get newly infected with HIV,” said Dr. Appelbaum, a geriatrician, an internist and a professor in