5161.0 Health of Older Adult Immigrants

Wednesday, October 29, 2008: 12:30 PM
Oral
Moderator:
Tony Kuo, MD, MSHS

12:30 PM
Latino Elders: Is Familismo Alive & Well?
Maria Elena Ruiz, PhD
12:45 PM
Promising Approaches for Assisting Hispanics with Alzheimer's Disease, their Families, and Caregivers
Marcela Gaitán, MPH, MA
  
1:00 PM
Beliefs and Practices about Aging and Cognitive Health among Asian American Older Adults
Susan L. Ivey, MD, MHSA, Winston Tseng, PhD and William Satariano, PhD
  
1:15 PM
Longitudinal Changes in Access to Usual Source of Care among Recently-Arrived Older Foreign-Born Individuals
Sunha Choi, PhD
1:30 PM
Homelessness, immigrant status, poverty and dementia: Identifying rehabilitative and care needs at the margins of society
Thilo Kroll, PhD and Ursula Naue, PhD

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

Organized by: Gerontological Health
Endorsed by: Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health, Latino Caucus, Socialist Caucus, Women's Caucus

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

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