“…Accordingly, the question that guided this research was: What were the coping strategies adopted by the elderly individuals, throughout their lives, to overcome the difficulties experienced by the condition of being a person with HIV? Systematic integrative review, which systematized the production on HIV in the elderly population, concluded that most research brings data related to the clinical profile, with epidemiological studies, of a quantitative nature, with few studies focused on the experiences or the more subjective and qualitative elements of living with HIV as an elderly person, which is an epistemological gap that needs to be investigated 6 .…”