Online Program

4180.0
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:

12:30pm
End-of-life care processes in nursing homes: Association with facility characteristics   
Qinghua Li, Dana B. Mukamel, PhD and Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD
12:42pm
Stability of DNR and CPR preferences among LTC nursing home residents   
Dana B. Mukamel, PhD, Heather Ladd, MS and Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD
12:54pm
Rural-urban differences in end-of-life medical care cost in older cancer patients   
Hongmei Wang, PhD, Lina Lander, ScD, Katherine Watkins, Eugene Boilesen, Monirul Islam, MD, PhD, Preethy Nayar, MBBS, MS (ENT), MPhil, PhD, Fang Qiu, Wanqing Zhang, PhD and Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, PhD

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Organized by: Aging & Public Health

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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