4131.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Oral Session

End of Life Care

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: To understand issues related to end of life care.
Presider(s):Terry Moore, RN
12:30 PMUse of advance directives in the PACE program
Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD, MPH, Nan Rong, MPH, Dana B. Mukamel, PhD
12:45 PMCollaborative networks to improve end-of-life care: The Colorado experiment
Nancy Baughman Csuti, DrPH, Sally Beatty, RN, MS, Maurene Flory, PhD
1:00 PMMeasuring end of life care in managed care: A descriptive study of Medicare + Choice enrollees in New England
Amy L. Gluckin, MPH, Qi Zhou, MD, MBA
1:15 PMCultural variations in approaches to end of life care
Etienne J Phipps, PhD, Gala True, PhD, Leonard E. Braitman, PhD
1:30 PMDying of old age: An examination of death certificates of centenarians
Charles E. Gessert, MD, MPH, Barbara Elliott, PhD, Irina Haller, PhD, MS
Sponsor:Gerontological Health
Cosponsors:Social Work; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA