Meeting The Moment: Strategies to Improve Health and Support for Underserved Older Adults Paper Session

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Paper Session

  • Date:
  • Time: -
  • Track: Research
  • Location: Crystal C
  • CME/CE: 1.0

Developed by the Research Committee

Moderator: Cathleen Colon-Emeric, MD


This session will present the latest peer-reviewed geriatrics research with questions and answers to follow. Learning Objectives: (1)discuss how older adults navigate the correctional environment and access healthcare; (2) identify patient-level disparities in access to palliative care; (3) describe an evidence-based method for identifying at-risk caregivers; (4) compare the effectiveness of 2 interventions in facilitating ACP among community-dwelling older Black and White adults.

Geriatric Prisoners and Their Experiences of Aging and Receiving Healthcare
Michelle Ihn Suh, MD
Accounting for Disparities in the Changing Practice of Older Adult Emergency General Surgery
Cheryl K Zogg, MD, PhD, MSPH, MHS
Screening for Risk of Elder Abuse by Dementia Caregivers in Healthcare Settings
Bonnie Olsen
Reducing Disparities in the Quality of Palliative Care for Older African Americans through Improved Advance Care Planning: Results of a Multi-Site Comparative Effectiveness Trial
Ramona L. Rhodes, MD, MPH, MSCS