141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Online Program

5088.0
Technology, Health Information and Older Adults

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Oral
This session is focused on the technology, and health information aspects of aging. The presentations will cover the following topics: technology use in informing older southern African-American men about prostate cancer screening; enhancing the health information literacy skills of older adults; a prescription for internet access:appealing to older adults through social media networks to combat colorectal cancer; and a fall prevention curriculum for community health workers.
Session Objectives: 1. To assess whether a computer-based IDM intervention for PrCa screening would be effective for older AA men. 2. To examine demographic and outcome measures of older BCIIS participants. 3. To assess the effectiveness of an interactive, hands-on, three-lesson series in enhancing older adults' health information literacy skills.4. To investigate health related factors associated with current social media use among adults 50 and older. 5. To discuss the training of community health workers to bridge the information gap to older adults regarding falls prevention.
Moderator:
Monina Lahoz, PhD

10:30am
Informed decision making in a new age: Technology use in informing older southern African-American men about prostate cancer screening   
Otis Owens, MPH, Daniela B. Friedman, MSc, PhD, Heather Brandt, PhD, CHES, Jay M. Bernhardt, PhD, MPH and James R. Hebert, ScD
     
10:42am
Characteristics of older women with breast cancer who use the internet   
Sheryl Lacoursiere, PhD, FNP-BC, APRN, Mary Knobf, PhD, RN, FAAN, AOCN and Cynthia Brandt, MD, MPH
10:54am
Enhancing the health information literacy skills of older adults   
Monina Lahoz, PhD, Paula Evans, PharmD, MS, CGP and Irena Bond, MSLIS
     
  
11:06am
A prescription for internet access: Appealing to older adults through social media networks to combat colorectal cancer   
Crystal Lumpkins, PhD, Natabhona Mabachi, PhD, MPH, Jaehoon Lee, PhD, Hsiang-Feng Chen, MS and K. Allen Greiner, MD, MPH
     
11:18am
A fall prevention curriculum for community health workers: Bridging the information gap   
Julie Ann St. John, MA, MPH, DrPH, Marcia Ory, PhD, MPH, Doris Howell, MPH, Matthew Lee Smith, PhD, MPH, CHES, Tiffany Shubert, PT, PHD, Cherie Rosemond, PT, PhD, GCS and Chris Beaudoin, PhD
     

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

Organized by: Aging & Public Health
Endorsed by: Chiropractic Health Care, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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

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