4033.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Poster Session

Clinical Issues in Older Adults

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: To understand issues related to clinical care of older adults.
Board 1A community-based, disease-specific model for providing prescription medications to under-insured, chronically ill older adults
Gale Kittle, RN, MPH
Board 2Colorectal cancer diagnostic and screening tests among Medicare beneficiaries in North Carolina
Anna P. Schenck, MSPH, PhD, Michael O'Malley, PhD
Board 3In-hospital mortality for Medicare beneficiaries: Trends, differentials, and risk factors
Frank F Song, PhD
Board 4Social work and late-life suicide: Trends and implications - Withdrawn
Mary Ann Dearborn, MSW, Mark S. Kaplan, DrPH
Board 4Subthreshold depression as a predictor of future depression status in an elderly community sample
Celia F Hybels, PhD, Carl F Pieper, DrPH, Dan G Blazer, MD, PhD
Board 5Caring for others and themselves: Flu shots among older volunteers
Kevin D. Frick, PhD, Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH
Board 6Geriatric epidemiology in a large, urban-setting emergency department: A view of things to come
Joilo C Barbosa, MD, MS, Monika Ahluwalia, MD, Lisa Kirkland, MD, Mary E LeBlanc
Board 7Hormonal Determinants of Prostate Growth Among African American Men
Michael A. Joseph, MPH, John T. Wei, MD, David S. Schottenfeld, MD, Rodney L. Dunn, MS, Craig Jaffe, MD
Board 8Oral Health Promotion Initiative for older Vermont adults
Annette W Benedict, RN, CRRN
Board 9The impact of body weight on physical functioning among the oldest old
Kristi Rahrig Jenkins, MPH
Sponsor:Gerontological Health
CE Credits:CME, Chiropractic, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA