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Social representations of elderly people about living with HIV/AIDS Luciana Araújo dos Reis Alessandra Souza de Oliveira Luana Araújo dos Reis Arianna Oliveira Santana Lopes Elaine dos Santos Santana Isnara Teixeira de BritoShahjahan Mozart Alexandre da Silva Nery<p>Objective: This study aims to understand the social representations of elderly people about living with HIV/AIDS.&nbsp;</p><p>Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, descriptive-analytical, with a qualitative approach and theoretical and methodological support from the Collective Memory Theory and the Social Representations Theory. Conducted with 38 elderly people. It used a questionnaire with sociodemographic data, health conditions, and a script for a semi-structured interview. The data analysis with the support of the QRS NVivo® Software and in the light of Bardin’s Content Analysis.</p><p>Results: The social representations of elderly persons, about living with HIV were: ruptures, living with treatment and coping with prejudice and the struggle for (over)living: the fear of dying and the spread of the diagnosis.&nbsp;</p><p>Conclusion: Social representations of the elderly about living with HIV/AIDS are about living with drug treatment, with the disruptions in their lives, health care, self-care, and pain of social arising from prejudice.</p> Archive of Gerontology and Geriatrics Research - Peertechz Publications 2023-10-07 Research Article https://doi.org/10.17352/aggr.000034 en Copyright © Luciana Araújo dos Reis et al.