Building on The John A. Hartford Foundation’s investment of more than a half billion dollars in aging and health programs over the past three decades, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees approved four new grants totaling $5.5 million to accelerate the move to age-friendly health systems that measurably improve care for…
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In so many ways, we live in the golden age of aging. In the past century, lifespan has doubled. That is one of the greatest, yet underappreciated, accomplishments of modern times. And as more people are living longer than ever before in human history, we are learning more every day…
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This year’s tumultuous campaign season has been riveting. However, Election Day will soon come and go, and our attention will turn from debates and proposals to the actual policy actions of our newly elected executive and legislative leaders. Health care, which will likely soon approach nearly 20 percent of gross…
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As we prepare to greet 2016 tonight, we want to take this opportunity to wish you all a healthy and happy new year! We hope you share our excitement about the coming year, and the bright prospects it brings to deliver better care for older adults. But before we sing…
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Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, started as the John A. Hartford Foundation's new President this week. As I begin an exciting new chapter of a career deeply embedded in geriatrics, I am thrilled by the opportunity to serve as the new President of the John A. Hartford Foundation and…
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Did you hear the story about the New York woman who fought tooth and nail to honor her father’s wish to die at home, only to have the health care system bounce him from facility to facility? He died in a hospital hospice unit with deep pressure ulcers and a…
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Over the weekend, I walked past my wife and kids watching the new season three of Netflix’s House of Cards and was stunned to see the evil President Frank Underwood ranting at his cabinet to get on with designing his jobs program that would be funded by slashing the “entitlements”…
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Antonio Z. Zuniga, a first-generation Mexican American, who gave inspirational and spiritual lectures in the U.S. and around the world. Here, at the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland, one of the many countries where he once spoke. After a long career writing primarily for newspapers and magazines, Marielena Zuniga took…
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Rosemary Rawlins, right, and her mother in "The Bistro." For much of the past 13 years, Rosemary Rawlins has found herself thrust into the role of family caregiver in a series of very different scenarios. First, her husband, Hugh, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) after being hit…
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The Amjad Family "village" in 2014. At the age of 4, Halima Amjad was already telling people she wanted to be a doctor. And not just any doctor. “I used to say that I want to be Mommy and Daddy’s doctor,” says Amjad, MD, MPH, a clinical and research…
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