4080.0 Healthcare Outcomes and Quality of Life

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
This session addresses various aspects of the issues related to health outcomes and quality of life among the elderly population, including chronic disease, social support and emotional distress, chronic disease and changes in quality of life in older adults, reducing potentially inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in nursing homes, older patients' expectations on hospital stays, the process that Coroner/Medical Examiner (C/ME) offices follow in deciding to investigate a suspicious death, as well as chronic disease, social support and emotional distress.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe the increasing prevalence of nine common chronic diseases, alone and in combination with each other, in older men and women over 11-years. 2. Describe most important expectations on forthcoming hospital stays of older patients. 3. Describe the public health concern related to over- and inappropriate antibiotic prescribing practices in nursing homes. 4. Explain the relationship between chronic disease and emotional distress and whether social support provides a buffer to this relationship.
Moderator:

10:42am
Chronic disease and changes in quality of life in older adults: The Rancho Bernardo Study
Donna Kritz-Silverstein, PhD, Claudia Der Martirosian, PhD and Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD, MACP
10:54am
Older patients' expectations on hospital stays
Tonio Schoenfelder, Tom Schaal, Joerg Klewer, MD PhD and Joachim Kugler, MD PhD
11:06am
Reducing potentially inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in nursing homes
Rosanna M. Bertrand, PhD, Lauren Olsho, PhD, Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, Louise Hadden, Alrick Edwards, MPH, Philip Sloane, MD, MPH, C. Madeline Mitchell, MURP and Donna Hurd, MSN
11:18am
Are Elder Deaths Due to Caregiver Neglect Going Undetected?
Aileen Wiglesworth, PhD and Laura Mosqueda, MD

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