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The attitudes of People Living with HIV (PLWH) towards frailty and maintaining quality of life (QOL) whilst ageing is largely unknown. This study examines how PLWH perceive being assessed for frailty and ageing, and the importance of QOL as they age. 40 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Many of the participants voiced that ageing was unexpected and were unprepared for this. Main themes for ageing included self-determination and loss of independence; concern for the future including care provision, services required for ageing and fear of admission into aged care. Themes associated with frailty were, future loss of physical function and the assessment process reflecting both positive (proactive) and negative (confronting) responses regarding ageing and frailty as many participants felt they were too young to be considered frail. Themes for quality of life included the importance of self-expression and independence; connection to others, having adequate finances to enjoy life, having baseline needs met such as housing and having a positive outlook on the future. This study highlighted the importance of talking about ageing and how frailty is framed in discussions to develop individualised strategies for PLWH to decrease risk factors for frailty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent research indicates that toddlers and infants succeed at various non-verbal spontaneous-response false-belief tasks; here we asked whether toddlers would also succeed at verbal spontaneous-response false-belief tasks that imposed significant linguistic demands. We tested 2.5-year-olds using two novel tasks: a preferential-looking task in which children listened to a false-belief story while looking at a picture book (with matching and non-matching pictures), and a violation-of-expectation task in which children watched an adult 'Subject' answer (correctly or incorrectly) a standard false-belief question. Positive results were obtained with both tasks, despite their linguistic demands. These results (1) support the distinction between spontaneous- and elicited-response tasks by showing that toddlers succeed at verbal false-belief tasks that do not require them to answer direct questions about agents' false beliefs, (2) reinforce claims of robust continuity in early false-belief understanding as assessed by spontaneous-response tasks, and (3) provide researchers with new experimental tasks for exploring early false-belief understanding in neurotypical and autistic populations.

People consider alternative causes when deciding whether a cause is responsible for an effect (diagnostic inference) but appear to neglect them when deciding whether an effect will occur (predictive inference). Five experiments were conducted to test a 2-part explanation of this phenomenon: namely, (a) that people interpret standard predictive queries as requests to estimate the probability of the effect in the presence of the cause alone, which renders alternative causes irrelevant, and (b) that the impact of disablers (inhibitory causes) on predictive judgments is underestimated, and this underestimation is wrongly interpreted as cause neglect. Experiment 1 showed that standard predictive queries are frequently interpreted as requests to estimate the likelihood of E given C alone. In Experiment 2, a causal Bayes network overestimated predictive inference when it was queried in the standard way, but this overestimation diminished when predictive inference was queried using an alternative wording. In Experiment 3, participants judged alternative causes to be relevant to diagnostic inference and both disablers and alternative causes to be relevant to predictive inference. In Experiment 4, disablers greatly overshadowed alternative causes in predictive judgments, but their impact on diagnostic judgments was negligible. In Experiment 5, the order of disabler retrieval influenced causal judgments. Taken together, these results indicate that human causal inference cannot be adequately modeled unless the manner in which knowledge is retrieved and applied is taken into consideration.