4274.0 Immigrant and Minority Health and Aging

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
The diverse experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States are important issues. This session covers the following important topics: life course disadvantage of African Americans and chronic disease in adulthood, racial disparities in LTC institutionalization upon hospital discharge, racial and ethnic disparities in the functional status of Medicare home health care patients, implementing the Program to Encourage Active and Rewarding Lives for Seniors to older immigrants, and the HHS Office of Minority Health's enhanced National CLAS Standards.
Session Objectives: The diverse experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States are important issues. This session covers the following important topics: life course disadvantage of African Americans and chronic disease in adulthood, racial disparities in LTC institutionalization upon hospital discharge, racial and ethnic disparities in the functional status of Medicare home health care patients, implementing the Program to Encourage Active and Rewarding Lives for Seniors to older immigrants, and the HHS Office of Minority Health's enhanced National CLAS Standards.
Moderator:
Lené Levy-Storms, PhD, MPH

2:30pm
Life course disadvantage of African Americans and chronic disease in adulthood
Shellery Cunningham, MSPH, Jan Warren-Findlow, PhD and Ahmed A. Arif, MBBS, PhD, CPH, FACE
     
2:42pm
Measuring racial and ethnic disparities in the functional status of Medicare home health care patients
Joan K. Davitt, PhD, MSS, MLSP and Siu-Shing Chan, PhD
2:54pm
Implementing PEARLS (the Program to Encourage Active and Rewarding Lives for Seniors) to older immigrants: A pilot study using trained interpreters
Lesley Steinman, MSW, MPH
     
3:06pm
HHS Office of Minority Health's enhanced National CLAS Standards: A blueprint for providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services to older adults
Guadalupe Pacheco, MSW, C. Godfrey Jacobs, Darci Graves, MA, MA, MPP, Jennifer Kenyon, BA and Crystal Barksdale, PhD
     

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

Organized by: Aging & Public Health
Endorsed by: Latino Caucus, Black Caucus of Health Workers, Chiropractic Health Care

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

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