5049.0 Nursing Home Care and Utilization

Wednesday, October 29, 2008: 8:30 AM
Oral
Moderator:
Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD

8:30 AM
Assessing the subjective method of nursing observation to monitor pressure ulcer healing through the use of quantitative measurements (PUSH) in nursing home residents
Erica George-Saintilus, MD, Nimmy Mathew, MA, Charles Cal, RN, MS, MBA, Roshan Hussain, MPH, MBA, Barbara C. Tommasulo, MD, CMD, LNHA, Renee Pekmezaris, PhD, Yosef Dlugacz, PhD and Gisele Wolf-Klein, MD
8:45 AM
Effects of the use of the Aging Game Simulation activity with future long-term care administrators
Carolinda Douglass, PhD
9:00 AM
Newly hired certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and culture change: How CNAs integrate into person-centered nursing homes
Kathy Wilson, MS, MBA
  
9:15 AM
Personal care assistance needs of obese elders entering nursing homes
Holly C. Felix, PhD
9:30 AM
Impact of Workplace Environment on Job Satisfaction among Nursing Assistants
Jong-Deuk Baek, PH D, Janice C. Probst, PhD and Sarah B. Laditka, PhD
9:45 AM
Racial Differences in Antidepressant Use among Depressed Nursing Home Residents
Stephen Crystal, PhD, Michele J. Siegel, PhD, Judith A. Lucas, EdD, Ayse Akincigil, PhD and Ece Kalay

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

Organized by: Gerontological Health
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus

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