5034.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Oral Session

Measures of Quality of Life and Disability

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: To understand measurement of quality of life and disability.
Presider(s):Bruce Friedman, PhD
8:30 AMAssessment of PACE particpants' valuation of disability states and comparisons to valuations by professionals and assisted living residents
Nan Rong, MPH, Bruce Friedman, PhD, Dana Mukamel, PhD
8:45 AMDetermining the burden of hip/knee osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis using disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), United States, 1996
Charles G. Helmick, MD, Catherine Michaud, MD, PhD, Margaret Lethbridge-Çejku, PhD, Jennifer Hootman, PhD, Meghna Majmudar
9:00 AMDiscrepancies between different domains of self-reported and performance-based measures of physical functioning:MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging
Melissa Tabbarah, PhD, Eileen M. Crimmins, PhD, Teresa E. Seeman, PhD
9:15 AMImplementation of Quality Measurement in Long Term Care Settings
Elizabeth D. Moxey, MPH, John P. O'Connor, PhD, Elizabeth White, MD, David B. Nash, MD, MBA
9:30 AMState applications of older adult health-related quality-of-life surveillance
David G. Moriarty, BSEE, Matthew M. Zack, MD, MPH, Rosemarie Kobau, MPH
Sponsor:Gerontological Health
Cosponsors:Social Work; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Chiropractic, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA