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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2290
igaa057.2290
Abstracts
Session 5945 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Preventing Cardiometabolic Disease in HIV-Infected Latino Men: The Happy Older Latinos Health Promotion Study
Jimenez Daniel  
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”662 662
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
Older Latinos living with HIV have been disproportionately affected by the epidemic and experience compounded health disparities that have deepened over time. Eighteen Latinos living with HIV with a mean age of 60.3 years (SD=6.4) were enrolled in the Happy Older Latinos are Active (HOLA), a community health worker-led, multicomponent, health promotion intervention. Participants were assessed at three time points on measures of cardiometabolic risk and psychosocial functioning. We evaluated the feasibility of recruitment, retention, acceptability, and implementation of HOLA. In 4 months, we met our enrollment target with <5% of eligible participants refusing participation. Participants attended over 70% of sessions and 1 participant was lost to follow up. These results indicate that HOLA is an innovative health promotion program that is uniquely tailored to address the multiple concerns that are prevalent in this community (cardiometabolic risk, psychological distress) in a nonstigmatizing and culturally acceptable manner.