3323.0 Immigrant and Minority Health and Aging

Monday, November 9, 2009: 2:30 PM
Oral
Moderator:
Keith Elder, PhD, MPH, MPA

2:30 PM
Community connectedness and depressive symptoms among older Vietnamese immigrants
Elaine J. Yuen, PhD, Giang T. Nguyen, MD, MPH, MSCE, Jin Hui Joo, MD MA, Ethan T. Nguyen, Yuko Sakata and Sophia Kwon, MPH(c)
     
2:45 PM
Sense of Coherence (SOC) and the incidence of Dementia among Japanese elderly men and women: The AGES Study
Kokoro Shirai, PhD, Hiroyasu Iso, MD, PhD, Hiroshi Hirai, PhD and Katsunori Kondo, PhD, MD
  
3:00 PM
Understanding and responding to the health literacy needs of older immigrants
Hitomi Yoshida, MS Ed
  
3:15 PM
Seeing the city through their eyes – Learning from older immigrants about how to make New York more 'age-friendly'
Paula J. Gardner, PhD
  
3:30 PM
Transforming routine primary care into a comprehensive Medical Home serving an immigrant older adult population
Ady Oster, MD, Shao Ping Yu, MPH, Ginger Wen-Hsuan Wey, MD, Shao-Chee Sim, PhD and Regina Lee, Esq
  

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

Organized by: Gerontological Health
Endorsed by: Latino Caucus, Medical Care, Socialist Caucus, Social Work

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

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