5159.0 Functional, Financial and Civic Aspects of Positive Aging

Wednesday, November 11, 2009: 12:30 PM
Oral
Moderator:
Steven P. Wallace, PhD

12:30 PM
Transitioning from work into retirement: Explaining well-being outcomes
Esteban Calvo, PhD and Natalia Sarkisian, PhD
  
12:45 PM
Effects of Racial Composition on Nursing Home Quality and Financial Performance
Latarsha Chisholm, MSW, Alex Laberge, PT, MBA, Robert Weech-Maldonado, MBA PhD and Kathryn Hyer, MPP, PhD
  
1:00 PM
Federal Poverty Line Excludes Many Income Insecure Elders of Color from Benefits
Susan Smith, MPA, Steven P. Wallace, PhD, D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, MPH and L. Cricel Molina, MPH
        
1:15 PM
Rethinking functional disability among community-dwelling older adults: The implications for families, caregivers, and home-care policy
Alex W. Costley, PhD

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

Organized by: Gerontological Health
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, Social Work

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

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