APHA Meetings:
Online Program

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2026.0 Health Care and Health Management for the Elderly

Sunday, October 30, 2011: 2:30 PM

Poster

Board 1

Assessing Risk Factors for Metabolic Syndrome among Rural Older Adults
Latrice Vinson, BA, Chao-Hui Huang, M Ed and Martha Crowther, PhD, MPH

Board 2

Rising Elderly Healthcare Costs in Broward County
Rushita Shah, MS, Michael Wolwa, MD, Cyril Blavo, DO, MPH&TM and Michael De Lucca, MHM

Board 3

Patterns of medication utilization among older adults in US nursing homes
Saumitra Rege, Yijun Yang, ScD, Jason Simeone, PhD and Brian Quilliam, PhD

Board 4

Transitions to different care settings or death among recipients of prolonged mechanic ventilation: A trajectory model based on longitudinal health insurance and death certificate data
Hsin-Ming Lu, PhD, Likwang Chen, PhD, Yuan-Horng Yan, MD, Jung-Der Wang, MD, ScD, Mei-Chuan Hung, MPH, Ming-Shian Lin, MD, Cheng-Ren Chen, MD and Po-Sheng Fan, MD

Board 5

End-of-life care in jail: Translating prison experiences into practice in New York City jails
Aleksander Shalshin, MD, Homer D. Venters, MD MS and Louise Cohen, MPH

Board 6

Provision of Palliative Care in an Urban Emergency Department
Katrina Kubicek, PhDc, Sarita Mohanty, MD, MPH, Jocelyn Supan, MPH, Jan Shoenberger, MD and Suan Stone, MD

Board 7

Board 8

Hospice Decision-Making in Taiwan: The Gap between Knowledge and Practice
Suchuan Yu, Alexander Lin and Po-Wei Chih

Board 9

Impact of nursing home characteristics on place of death among residents receiving post-acute care
Jingping Xing, Dana B. Mukamel, PhD and Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD

Board 10

Demand For and Supply of Geriatricians in Nursing Homes
Wei Chen Lee, MS and Ciro V. Sumaya, MD, MPHTM

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