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3423.0
Healthcare Outcomes, Quality of Life and Innovations in Aging Practice

Monday, November 4, 2013: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Roundtable
This session addresses various aspects of the issues related to health outcomes, quality of life among the elderly population as well as innovations in aging practices, including impact of community delivery models on quality of life, health care reform and the changing training needs; harnessing community resources to decrease ates of hospital readmission; an American Indian approach diabetes prevention program for seniors with non-complicated type II diabetes; guided care nurse satisfaction with their role, an evaluation of the chronic care model, national prevention strategy and healthy people 2020 goals to reduce health disparities among older americans thru the patient protection and affordable care act; a behavioral health education series for older adults and their caregivers.
Session Objectives: 1. To examine the Money Follows the Person (MFP) program quality of life (QoL) outcomes to display similarities and differences experienced by three consumer populations. 2. To examine the Money Follows the Person (MFP) program quality of life (QoL) outcomes to display similarities and differences experienced by three consumer populations. 3. To describe definitions of employer accommodation given by women receiving treatment with curative intent who were employed at the time of breast cancer diagnosis. 4. To examine trends in the mode of non-natural deaths that occurred in the County from 1990 – 2010.
Moderator:
Meiling Wang, PHD, MPH

Table 1
Impact of community delivery models on quality of life   
Brittney Romanson, MPH, Glenn Landers, Sc.D., MBA, MHA, Kristi Fuller, MSW and Elizabeth Kauss, MSW
  
Table 2
Health care reform and the changing training needs for those who care for the elderly   
Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN and Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN
Table 3
Achieving normal glycemic control by implementing an American Indian approach diabetes prevention program for seniors with non-complicated type II diabetes   
Jan Vasquez Chacon, CHES, MPH (c) and Ramin Naderi, MA Kinesiology
Table 4
Guided care nurse satisfaction with their role   
Mei Wen, Ph.D., Jill A. Marsteller, PhD and Yea-Jen Hsu
Table 5
An evaluation of the chronic care model, national prevention strategy and healthy people 2020 goals to reduce health disparities among older americans thru the patient protection and affordable care act   
Miranda Chung, MPH, DrPH
Table 6
A behavioral health education series for older adults and their caregivers   
Elaine T. Jurkowski, MSW, PhD and Mary Helen Hogue, MSW
Table 7
Employer accommodations defined by women undergoing treatment for breast cancer   
Carolyn Eberle, MPH, Sang-Hee Min, Julia Ramirez, MA, Antonia Bennett, PhD, Kevin Oeffinger, MD, Francesca Gany, MD, MS and Victoria S. Blinder, MD, MSc
  
Table 8
Non-natural deaths in San Diego county: A comparison of older adults to the general population   
Joshua Smith, PhD, MPH, Alicia Sampson, MPH, CPH, Barbara M. Stepanski, MPH, Isabel Corcos, PhD, MPH, Leslie Ray, MPH, MPPA, MA and Sanaa Abedin, MPH
  

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

Organized by: Aging & Public Health
Endorsed by: American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus, Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health

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

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