Editor's Note: This post also appears on the Eldercare Workforce Alliance blog, which we encourage our readers to follow. Are you a caregiver? Sooner or later, caregiving touches us all. According to a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Families Caring for an Aging America…
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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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The nation’s four million home health aides, certified nurse aides, and personal care attendants are a lifeline for many older adults and people with disabilities. Our grantee, PHI, is the nation’s leading authority on the direct-care workforce, and they promote quality direct-care jobs as the foundation for quality care for…
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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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Steven Dawson of PHI addresses the briefing on direct care workers held recently by Philanthropy New York. The health of any given community is fragile and complex. It is greater than the sum of individual health outcomes or access to care. The health of a community rests upon an…
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Pat Volland Through our new strategic plan we are focusing on Linking Education to Practice as one of our funding portfolios to improve the training and practice of health care professionals who work with older adults. But one of our current grant programs has been successfully making this linkage…
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What could be better than embarking on a path to a fulfilling career and along the way finding your life partner? I recently met Michael and Alyssa Aguirre who were eager to tell me their story and to thank the Hartford Foundation for funding the Hartford Partnership Program in Aging…
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We believe very strongly that interprofessional teams provide the best care, especially for older people with serious multiple chronic conditions. In direct care as a geriatric social worker, I worked very closely with physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, physical therapists, as well as home health aides and family caregivers. It never occurred…
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As the Grants Manager at the Foundation, my access to grantees is mostly limited to the reports they periodically send to us and the occasional evaluation site visit I attend. So, my focus is usally on the numbers: how grantees spend the money we awarded them and whether they are…
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As many of our readers know by now, our 2011 Annual Report features our work to address the mental health needs of older Americans. You can view the report online here, and we have begun running blog stories and associated videos that try to capture the experience of older people…
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