4177.0 Long-Term Care in Various Settings

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 12:30 PM
Oral
This session addresses various important issues related to the long-term care in various settings. Examples of covered topics include: promoting equity in Medicare home health care, the relationship between end-of-life outcomes and care processes in nursing homes, projecting the impact of the Money Follows the Person program on state Medicaid long-term care expenditures, and how older Californians with disabilities rely on public services to remain independent.
Session Objectives: 1. Identify potential contributing factors to racial/ethnic disparities in Medicare home health care outcomes. 2. Analyze the association between end-of-life outcomes and care processes in nursing homes.
Moderator:
Dana B. Mukamel, PhD

12:30 PM
Dementia care training in nursing homes: A policy perspective
Lené Levy-Storms, PhD, MPH
12:48 PM
Community-based health: Promoting equity in Medicare home health care
Joan K. Davitt, PhD, MSS, MLSP, Rosemary Frasso, PhD(c), MSc, CPH, Joretha Bourjolly, PhD and Kathryn H. Bowles, RN, PhD, FAAN
1:06 PM
End-Of-Life Outcomes in Nursing Homes: Association with Care Processes
Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD, Nan Tracy Zheng, PhD and Dana B. Mukamel, PhD
1:24 PM
Projecting the impact of the Money Follows the Person program on state Medicaid long-term care expenditures: Designing a cost projection model and applying it to Idaho's Medicaid program
Andrew Hyer, JD, MHS
1:42 PM
Holding on: Older Californians with disabilities rely on public services to remain independent
Kathryn G. Kietzman, PhD, MSW, Steven P. Wallace, PhD, Eva M. Durazo, MPH, Jacqueline Torres, MPH, MA, Anne Soon Choi, PhD, A.E. (Ted) Benjamin, PhD and Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, PhD, MPH

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

Organized by: Aging & Public Health
Endorsed by: American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus, Disability

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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