5160.0 End of Life Issues

Wednesday, November 11, 2009: 12:30 PM
Oral
Moderator:
Susan Miller, PhD

12:30 PM
End-of-Life Care Processes in Nursing Homes: The importance of communication and coordination among certified nursing assistants (CNAs)
Nan (Tracy) Zheng and Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD
12:45 PM
End-of life care for older adults: Hospital deaths, bedside decisions, and lessons learned from a mixed methods approach
Brenda Ohta, PhD, MSG, MSW and Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, PhD
  
1:00 PM
Interest in and acceptance of a peer-driven end-of-life care model within a state run veterans home
Kristopher P. Fennie, MPH, PhD, A. Siobhan Thompson, MPH, Margaret Concannon, MEd, CTRS, NHA and Linda Schwartz, RN, MSN, DrPH
  
1:15 PM
“Looking beyond pain”: Potential quality measures for hospice and palliative care
Danielle D. Durham, MPH, Franziska Rokoske, PT, MS, Laura Hanson, MD, MPH and Anna Schenck, MSPH, PhD
  
1:30 PM
Hospice Care in Louisiana & Mississippi in 2006
Yaling Lo, MS and Mahmud Khan, PhD

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

Organized by: Gerontological Health
Endorsed by: Ethics SPIG, Public Health Nursing, Socialist Caucus, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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