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Palliative Care Roundtable

Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Roundtable
Session Objectives: Assess current best practices in prison hospice programs List the most used core and non-core hospice services by patients Describe 3 ways providers and organizations working with Dominicans and Puerto Ricans can enhance communication about end-of-life issues, including advance care planning. Evaluate the current understanding of emotional distress in the palliative care setting and how it impacts palliative care patients symptom management and end of life. Evaluate a training program that utilizes college students as respite workers. Identify the predictors of intentions to use hospice in older adults Describe the demographics and associated practice settings of family physicians who provide palliative care in the context of changing patient preferences, demographics and population need for palliative care services. List underlying reasons for hospice live discharges Identify attitudes and barriers to advance directive completion in older African Americans Describe three best practices in providing outpatient palliative care through home visits, training nurses in reducing unwanted care and advanced care planning for high-risk geriatric patients
Moderator:
Nathan Boucher, PA-C, MS, MPA, CPHQ, DrPH Cand.

Table 1
Dying for Change: An Examination of the affect of Prison Hospice Programs on Institutional Culture   
Kori Novak, MBA, PhD
Table 2
Patient mix and pattern of care in hospices: Results from the National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS)   
Mengying He, Haiyan Qu, PhD and Richard Shewchuk, PhD
Table 3
End-of-Life Decisions, Advance Care Planning, and Culture: A Qualitative Study of Dominican and Puerto Rican Elders, East Harlem, NYC   
Nathan Boucher, PA-C, MS, MPA, CPHQ, DrPH Cand.
Table 4
Are We Doing Enough In Managing Emotional Distress:Impact on Patient Symptoms and End of LIfe ?   
Shibani Ray-Mazumder, Sc.D, Ph.D
Table 5
Mobilizing college students to provide caregiver support at end-of-life   
Vanessa Jones Briscoe, PhD, MSN, ARPN and Deanna Wathington, MD, MPH, FAAFP
  
Table 6
Planning Ahead: Intentions to Use Hospice in Older Adults   
Lusine Nahapetyan, PhD, Pamela Orpinas, PhD, MPH and Anne P. Glass, PhD
Table 7
Demographic and practice characteristics of family physicians practicing palliative care   
Claire Ankuda, MD MPH and Anuradha Jetty, MPH
Table 8
Exploring underlying reasons for hospice disenrollment   
Kyusuk Chung, PhD, Andrew Shooshtari, BSHA and Sara Rahmanian Koushkaki, BA, MSHA Candidate
Table 9
Factors associated with advance directive completion in an older African American population   
Tanya Troy, MPH, Megan Brady, MPH, MSW and Denise White Perkins, MD, PhD
Table 10
Outpatient palliative care, nurse training and advanced care planning for high-risk geriatric patients: Three best practices in providing end-of-life care   
David Reuben, MD, Daphna Gans, PhD, Jessica Jew, MPH, Lee Jennings, MD, Zaldy Tan, MD, Dan Osterweil, DO and Heather McCreath, PhD

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

Organized by: Aging & Public Health
Endorsed by: Medical Care Section, Community Health Planning and Policy Development

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

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