4180.0
End-of-Life Care/Issues
End-of-Life Care/Issues
Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Oral
This session presents five studies on the end of life care issues for elderly population. Topics include end-of-life care processes in nursing homes; stability of DNR and CPR preferences among LTC nursing home residents; rural-urban differences in end-of-life medical care cost in older cancer patients; concomitant opioid-laxative use in hospice patients age 65+ in their last week of life; analgesic use by primary diagnosis among hospice patients 65 and older during the last week of life.
Session Objectives: 1. To measure end-of-life (EOL) care processes in US nursing homes (NHs), and identified facility factors that characterize good EOL care. 2. To examine the stability of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders to offer guidance for policy and care practice. 3. To measure end-of-life care (EOL) processes in US nursing homes, and identified facility factors that characterize good EOL care. 4. To examine concomitant opioid-laxative use during the last week of life among elderly hospice patients with one of the top five common primary diagnoses: cancer, dementia, debility, heart disease, or lung disease. 5. To describe analgesic use, during the last week of life, among elderly hospice patients who died from cancer, dementia, and debility.
Moderator:
Dana B. Mukamel, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by: Aging & Public Health
CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)
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