4275.0 Older Adults and Disability

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
This session will discuss issues related to disability, aging, and public Health with topics ranging from burden of hearing loss on the quality of life among older adults, factors influencing driving avoidance among older drivers, multimorbidity and disability among elderly Medicare beneficiaries, the mental capacity of crime victims with dementia and cognitive impairment for self-advocacy, disparities in access and utilization among individuals with disabilities, to reports of seizure history and problems with activities of daily living in a Medicare population.
Session Objectives: 1. Evaluate the effect of multimorbidity on disability. 2. Describe the relation between health insurance and patient/provider interactions and health care access and use among individuals with disabilities. 3. Describe the elements of determining capacity utilizing the Paradise-2 Model of Mental Capacity.
Moderator:
Allan Goldman, MPH

2:30pm
Burden of Hearing Loss on the Quality of Life Among Older Adults with Medicare Supplement Insurance
Kevin Hawkins, PhD, Ming Bai, MD, Ronald J. Ozminkowski, PhD, Shirley Musich, PhD, Richard Migliori, MD and Charlotte S. Yeh, MD
        
2:45pm
Sociodemographic and Health Factors Influencing Driving Avoidance among Older Drivers
Moon Choi, PhD, Kathryn Betts Adams, PhD and Eva Kahana, PhD
     
3:00pm
Multimorbidity and disability among elderly Medicare beneficiaries
Usha Sambamoorthi, PhD, Patricia A. Findley, DrPH, MSW, Cindy Tworek, PhD, MPH and George Rust
3:15pm
No longer the perfect victims: Demonstrating the mental capacity of crime victims with dementia and cognitive impairment for self-advocacy
Tina Meyer, MS, DHSc, PA-C, Elizabeth Hoppe, OD, MPH, DrPH and Susan Mackintosh, DO, MPH
              
3:30pm
Disparities in Access and Utilization among Individuals with Disabilities
Nancy A. Miller, PhD, Annette E. Snyder, PhD, MSN, CFNP and Adele Kirk, PhD
     
3:45pm
Reports of Seizure History and Problems with Activities of Daily Living in a Medicare Population
H.R. Foushee, PhD, Roy Martin, PhD, Polly Kratt, PhD, Dora Adoboe, MPH and Maria Pisu, PhD
     

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

Organized by: Gerontological Health (newly approved name Aging & Public Health)
Endorsed by: Social Work, Vision Care Section

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

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