Last week, the Institute of Medicine released a new report titled Dying in America. The committee that worked on the report included some long-time grantees and friends of the John A. Hartford Foundation, such as June Simmons of the Partners in Care Foundation, Jean Kutner, a Beeson Scholar and faculty…
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The stark beauty of the landscape near Hardin, Mont. National Mental Health Month, which comes in May each year, has meant more to me since launching our initiative to spread the IMPACT model of depression treatment in the five-state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) under the…
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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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Butte, Mont., with the former Berkley Pit copper mine in the distance. My recent travels to the rural Northwest to visit clinics that have applied for the next round of Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grants have given me an even deeper appreciation of both the beauty of this part…
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One of these days, if you’re feeling daring and want to stir the pot around a table of people – whether you know them or not – ask them what they believe the role of government should be. From Knoxville to Karachi, you’ll hear all kinds of answers. Before anybody…
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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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Last month, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a major report on the State of U.S. Health 1990-2010 as part of the Global Burden of Disease project funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Bill and Melinda Gates…
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As noted in a recent Los Angeles Times article, JAMA Psychiatry recently published a study showing that men are equally likely to be depressed as women. That doesn't sound very revolutionary until you consider the long-held belief that women are 70 percent more likely to have major depression than men…
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In proclaiming May as National Mental Health Awareness Month, President Obama called mental health problems a serious public health concern. We need to raise awareness about mental health while working to improve the standard of care for those with mental disorders. I’m delighted that our work with the Social Innovation…
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