This is the last in a series of seven issue briefs. The John A. Hartford Foundation Change AGEnts Initiative accelerates sustained practice change that improves the care of older adults. It does this by harnessing the collective power of The John A. Hartford Foundation’s interprofessional community of scholars, clinicians…
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This is the sixth in a series of seven issue briefs. The John A. Hartford Foundation Change AGEnts Initiative accelerates sustained practice change that improves the care of older adults. It does this by harnessing the collective power of The John A. Hartford Foundation’s interprofessional community of scholars, clinicians…
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Whether we receive care, provide care, or coordinate care for a loved one, everyone benefits from improving the quality of jobs for America’s 2 million current home care workers and the millions more we’ll need to care for the growing number of older adults in the coming decades. That’s why…
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Yesterday, the New York Times had an interesting piece looking at the star rating system that Medicare has been using to evaluate long-term care facilities. Coincidentally, I was moved to learn that a family friend, my “Aunt Betsy,” has been in an institution for going on 10 years, exceeding almost…
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Dr. Julie Bynum moderates the Health Affairs briefing on the special issue on Alzheimer's disease. We all have Alzheimer’s disease. This is a key message I took away from the April special Alzheimer’s issue of Health Affairs, the country’s leading health policy journal. One of the contributing authors, Jason…
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This month’s issue of The Gerontologist includes a supplement on culture change and transforming nursing homes. The issue features the work of long-time friends of the John A. Hartford Foundation and experts in the field like Deb Saliba, Phil Sloane, Claudia Beverly, Cornelia Beck, and Robyn Stone. Because nursing homes…
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As part of our Tools You Can Use series, we like to feature new products and resources that improve the health of older Americans. In this installment, two researchers share a free toolkit that provides evidence-based resources for staff in senior living communities promoting non-pharmacologic strategies to address behavioral and…
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If you can stay calm while others all about you lose their heads, sometimes it means you just don’t understand the problem. Click on document to read the full Department of Justice press release. Most of the time, being reasonable and understanding and putting yourself in the other fellow’s shoes…
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Dr. Tracy Lustig testified in August before the Commission on Long-Term Care. One of my biggest surprises in the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was the inclusion of title VIII, the CLASS ACT, which created the possibility of a national, voluntary, premium-financed, and federally…
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When Depression-era gangster Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he replied: “Because that’s where the money is.” Similarly, I’ve argued that if there is room for quality improvement and cost savings in healthcare reform, it will be in the care of those complexly ill older adults who are…
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