4194.0: Tuesday, November 14, 2000: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Home Care

Learning Objectives: 1) To become knowledgable about issues related to post hospital home care. 2) To become knowledgable about outcomes measurement in home care services. 3) To understand problems in financing and quality of home care services
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Presider(s):Penny Feldman, PhD
2:30 PMCommunity size and hospital involvement in post-hospital care
James H. Swan, PhD, Connie Evashwick, ScD, Peggy Smith, PhD, Peggy Smith, PhD
2:48 PMAnalysis of the factors affecting some outcome measures at adult care centers and in-home aide programs
Linfeng Xu, Zhimei Liu, Frederick S. Johnson, Sally C. Stearns
3:06 PMEvidence-based practice in home healthcare
Margaret McDonald, MSW, Penny Feldman, PhD, Chris Murtaugh, PhD, Liliana Pezzin, PhD
3:24 PMSocial networks and fear of falling in a low-income elderly population
Elpidoforos S Soteriades, MD, MSc, Susan Harris, DSc, Michael Nicolaou, BA, Jo Anna S Coolidge, MD, MPH, Bess Dawson-Hughes, MD
3:42 PMUtilization and outcome differences among home health prospective payment groups
Robert E. Schlenker, PhD, Martha C. Powell, PhD, Jim Grigsby, PhD
Sponsor:Gerontological Health
Cosponsors:Social Work

The 128th Annual Meeting of APHA