5225.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Oral Session

Home Care for the Elderly

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: To understand issues related to home care.
Presider(s):Penny Feldman, PHD
4:30 PMFunction-based outcomes and their predictors in Medicare home care patients
Richard H. Fortinsky, PhD, Juliane R. Fenster, MS, MPH, Ramon Garcia, James O. Judge, MD
4:45 PMHome health care for acutely ill elderly populations: Quicker? cheaper? better?
Carl W. Nelson, PhD, Lyn O'Brien, MS RN ANP
5:00 PMInformal caregivers as providers of long-term care: The differential experiences of women
Maryam Navaie-Waliser, DrPH, Aubrey Spriggs, MA, Penny Feldman, PhD
5:15 PMHow state-funded home care programs respond to changes in Medicare home health care: Resource allocation decisions on the front-line
Kirsten Corazzini Gomez, PhD
5:30 PMIntegrating care without integrating financing: The VNS CHOICE model
Holly Michaels Fisher, BSN, MS, MPH
Sponsor:Gerontological Health
Cosponsors:Public Health Nursing; Social Work; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA