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Older Adults with Complex Chronic Conditions

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
Effective tertiary prevention approaches are urgently needed to reduce disease burden on population health due to multi-morbidity. These presentations will discuss data sources available to study co-occurring cognitive impairment and chronic conditions; medication burden at end of life due to complex chronic conditions; the functional impact of multiple comorbidities; and drug-alcohol interactions in U.S. older adults.
Session Objectives: Explain the association of obesity and diabetes on disability in older Americans over 17 years of follow-up. Describe the overall medication burden during the last week of life among older hospice patients with cancer, dementia, debility, heart disease and lung disease in the United States. Describe the current evidence on dementia-severity cognitive impairment and co-occurring chronic conditions. Discuss the implications of potential drug-alcohol interactions on the health of older adults with multiple chronic conditions.
Moderator:
Susan Hughes, PhD

12:30pm
An Exploration of the Longitudinal Association between Obesity, Diabetes, and Disability in Older Adults: Findings from the Hispanic EPESE
Sanggon Nam, PhD, MS, Soham Al Snih, MD/PhD and Kyriakos Markides, PhD
12:45pm
Medication burden in the last week of life among older patients receiving end-of-life care in the United States: 2007 National Home and Hospice Care Survey
Lisa Dwyer, MPH, Denys T. Lau, PhD and Joseph Shega, MD
1:00pm
Cognitive impairment and multiple chronic conditions: Opportunities for public health research and practice
Lesley Steinman, MSW, MPH
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
1:15pm
Activity limitations and participation restrictions in elderly with arthritis, and prevalence of associated comorbidities: Findings from the National Health and Ageing Trends Study (NHATS)
Richa Sinha, MPH, PhD and Mary Slavin, PT, PhD
1:30pm
Drug-Alcohol Interactions Among Older Adults in the U.S
Dima Qato, PharmD, MPH, PhD

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

Organized by: Aging & Public Health
Endorsed by: Medical Care Section, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs, Chiropractic Health Care, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

See more of: Aging & Public Health
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