The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Current Issues in Health and Health Care for Older Adults
3037.2: Monday, November 11, 2002: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Poster
Current Issues in Health and Health Care for Older Adults
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Board 1Medicaid nursing facility payment: Direct care versus other cost centers since the repeal of Boren
James H. Swan, PhD, Saraswathy Ramachandran, MA, Padma Gulur, BDS, Dipti Patel, MBBS, Atiq Syed, MBBS, Charlene Harrington, PhD
Board 2Does Consumer-Directed Care Affect Smoking and Alcohol Use, and Other Health-Related Behaviors?
Mark Newbrough, MD, Bruce Friedman, PhD, William Barker, MD, Gerald M. Eggert, PhD, Brenda Wamsley, MSW
Board 3Assesment of the current standard of palliative care in a hospital setting
Deena Blanchard, BA, Terri Maxwell, RN, MSN, James Plumb, MD
Board 4Assessment Of Older Adult Volunteers’ Subjective Well Being Over The Course Of One Year
J.R. Bundens, BS, J. Bressler, PhD
Board 5Relationship of Quality of Care and Financial Performance in the Nursing Home Industry
Robert Weech-Maldonado, PhD, Gerald Neff, MS, Vincent Mor, PhD
Board 6Cancer coverage in North American seniors' publications
Daniela Beth Friedman-Award Winner, MSc, Laurie Hoffman-Goetz, PhD, MPH
Board 7Correlates of impaired hearing: Results from the National Health Survey of Pakistan 1990-94
Irshad A. Shaikh, MD, MPH, PhD, Greg Pappas, MD, PhD, Masood Ali Shaikh, MD, MPH
Board 8Predictors of health behaviors conductive to reducing pain among homebound seniors with arthritis who enroll for a pain self-management program
Kareen Nour, Sophie Laforest, Monique A. Gignac, PhD, Lise Gauvin, PhD
Board 9Reasons for the Adoption of Celibacy among Older Men and Women Living with HIV/AIDS
Karolynn Siegel, PhD, Eric W. Schrimshaw, MA
Board 10Tobacco Control and Aging
Victoria Wagman, Abby C. Rosenthal, MPH, Jim Bergman
Organized by:Gerontological Health
Endorsed by:Chiropractic Health Care; Epidemiology
CE Credits:Chiropractic, Nursing, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA