4003.0 Older Adults and Disability

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 8:30 AM
Oral
It is important to address the health needs of older adults with disabilities. Among topics this session addresses include: voluntary and Involuntary driving cessation in later life, self-reported and observed home-based functional ability, the meaning of work and its translation into meaningful retirement for elders with intellectual disabilities, reproducibility of the increased Guttman scalability with age of activities of daily living items, and implications of aging with neuromuscular disease for employment.
Session Objectives: 1. Differentiate between voluntary and involuntary driving cessation in later life. 2. Describe the meaning of work for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Moderator:
Irena Pesis-Katz, PhD

8:30 AM
Aging with developmental disabilities: Self-reported and observed home-based functional ability
B. Lynn Hutchings, PhD and Allison Zippay, PhD
     
8:48 AM
An Investigation of the Meaning of Work and its Translation into Meaningful Retirement for Elders with Intellectual Disabilities
Joan E. Dacher, PhD, GNP-C and Barbara B. Pieper, PhD, RN
     
9:06 AM
Reproducibility of the Increased Guttman Scalability with Age of ADL items
Mitchell LaPlante, PhD
     
9:24 AM
Voluntary and Involuntary Driving Cessation in Later Life
Moon Choi, PhD, Briana Mezuk, PhD and George W. Rebok, MA PhD
     
9:42 AM
Aging with neuromuscular disease: Implications for employment
Kara McMullen, MPH and Kurt L. Johnson, PhD
     

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

Organized by: Aging & Public Health
Endorsed by: Vision Care Section, 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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