While most people will be watching the Super Bowl Sunday, Rachael Watman is rooting for another team: the latest Hartford Change AGEnts Action Awards winners. I am not going to win many fans here: I don’t watch the Super Bowl nor do I really like football. My husband just…
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The opening session of the Hartford Change AGEnts Conference in Philadelphia last week. Last week was the capstone of the first-year rollout of the Hartford Change AGEnts Initiative. This projects aims to engage and support all prior John A. Hartford Foundation health and aging grantees to focus on making…
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For almost 20 years, the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has been one of the John A. Hartford Foundation’s key grantee partners. The organization served first as the home of the Geriatric Social Work Initiative (GSWI), then as the coordinating center for the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence…
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Since launching our Hartford Change AGEnts initiative late last year, we’ve taken the first steps toward our goal of accelerating sustained practice change that improves the health of older Americans, their families, and communities. Change AGEnts are connecting through our online community and the first two Change AGEnts Networks—focused on…
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I bet every reader of Health AGEnda knows someone who is a family caregiver (many see one every day in the mirror). And I bet every family member or friend providing care to an older adult who needs assistance because of chronic disease or frailty has their stories of good…
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Recently, while spending some time with my sister and her kids, I had the pleasure of overhearing a conversation between my eight-year-old son, Westley, and his six-year-old cousin, Beckett. It went like this: Westley: [Exasperated] Beckett, you knoooow I can’t read minds. Beckett: Times up! [Dramatic pause] I was thinking…
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This is the last in a three-part Health AGEnda series on the Hartford Foundation’s 2013 Annual Report: Spreading Innovation Through Collaboration. Collaboration is everything—creating meaningful and measurable change rarely, if ever, happens in a vacuum. Here at the John A. Hartford Foundation, we recognize the importance of forging longstanding relationships…
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2014 Hartford Change AGEnts Policy Institute Participants Improving the transitional care of frail older adults through better skilled nursing facility reimbursement. Reducing regulatory barriers to evidence-based care coordination for older adults with multiple chronic conditions. Advocating for loan repayment/forgiveness initiatives for geriatric psychiatry and other geriatric-care specialty training programs…
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One of the Hartford Foundation's new grants will support an additional 44 Health and Policy Fellows over the next three years. While the two new grants approved by the John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees last week continue to move us forward in our new strategic direction, which…
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From left, Cherie Brunker, Meg Wallhagen, Rosanne Leipzig, and Aanand Naik put their pieces of the puzzle together to complete the picture at the recent Change AGEnts event at the AGS annual meeting. For the thousands of researchers and clinicians who have been a part of the John A…
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