4225.0 Politics, Policy, and Aging

Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 2:30 PM
Oral
Moderator:
Dana B. Mukamel, PhD

2:30 PM
Racial disparities in access to Medicare home health care: The disparate impact of policy
Joan K. Davitt, PhD, MSS, MLSP
        
2:45 PM
Policy issues related to the six-month prognostic standard for eligibility in the Medicare Hospice Benefit
Shayna E. Rich, MA, MS
        
3:00 PM
Advancing caregiving as a public health issue: The need for surveillance and intervention
Ronda C. Talley, PhD, MPH
        
3:15 PM
Factors related to non-elderly nursing home residents' preferences and opportunities for de-institutionalization in Maryland
Annette E. Snyder, PhD, MSN, CFNP and Nancy A. Miller, PhD
        
3:30 PM
Evaluation of policy change: Effect of Grandparent Caretaker Law on caregivers, children, courts, and schools
Carla M. Clasen, MPH, BSN, Dionne Simmons, BHA, Carla Lachecki, MA, Jacqualyn Martin and Laurie McCool
        

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Gerontological Health
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, Ethics, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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