5099.0 Access to Healthcare for People with Disabilities II

Wednesday, November 11, 2009: 10:30 AM
Oral
This session deals with several important issues related to barriers to accessing healthcare among people with disabilities. Two presentations focus on utilization and non-utilization patterns among people with disabilities who have less-than-optimal health coverage. Two other presentations focus on identifying and reducing barriers to quality care for people with disabilities in hospital settings.
Session Objectives: Identify key issues in access to healthcare for people with disabilities. Compare barriers to accessing healthcare among people with disabilities according to health coverage.
Moderator:
Gloria L. Krahn, PhD, MPH

10:30 AM
Health care behaviors among enrollees in a state high-risk insurance pool
Jean P. Hall, PhD, Shawna L. Carroll, MA, MPH and Janice M. Moore, MA, MBA, MSW
     
10:48 AM
Disease prevalence and health care utilization patterns of people with physical disabilities in Kansas who receive support from an HCBS waiver
Amanda Reichard, PhD
  
11:06 AM
Interactions of people with disabilities with nursing staff during hospitalization
Suzanne C. Smeltzer, RN, EdD, Patricia Haynor, PhD, RN and Colleen Avery, RN, BSN
  
11:24 AM
An innovative program for individuals with intellectual disabilities facing hospitalization
Sarah Ailey, PhD, RNC and Robyn Hart, M Ed, CCLS
  
Discussion

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

Organized by: Disability
Endorsed by: Gerontological Health, Socialist Caucus

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

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