The most potent risk factor for heart disease is aging, according to the American College of Cardiology (ACC). Given how rapidly our population is aging, that’s sobering news indeed, especially when you consider that clinical practice guidelines rarely apply to older adults with multiple chronic conditions. That means regardless of…
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Diane E. Meier, MD Editor's Note: For almost eight years, the John A. Hartford Foundation has partnered with Diane Meier, MD, to increase awareness of palliative care and make it more widely accessible. In March, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees renewed our support for the Center to Advance Palliative…
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From left, featured experts Peggy O'Kane, Robert Berenson, and Caroline Blaum listen intently. Like so many stakeholders in health care, we at the John A. Hartford Foundation have many of our hopes pinned on enhanced primary care as a way of improving health outcomes, particularly for older Americans who…
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Claire Fagin, left, and adventurous dining partner Rachael Watman. I had lunch with Claire Fagin, PhD, RN, Dean Emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, a few weeks ago. I love meeting with Claire and getting her perspective on the world of nursing, aging, and health care…
Read full postOn Friday, July 25, 2014, NCQA and the John A. Hartford Foundation hosted a breakfast briefing in Washington, DC, entitled,Transforming Primary Care: What Medicare Beneficiaries Want and Need from Patient-Centered Medical Homes to Improve Health and Lower Costs. Primary care often struggles to serve the most complex and expensive Medicare…
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July is an important month in history, with Bastille Day, on July 14, coming just 10 days after our own 4th of July. So what better time to consider issues of justice and equality? There are lots of different ways to interpret equality: equality of outcomes, equality of opportunity, or…
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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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We swim in an ever expanding ocean of electronic data. Every Google search or credit card transaction can be aggregated and analyzed by companies that often seem to know what we want before we do. With new and cheaper analytic tools and more sophisticated modeling, the result is the ability…
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This is the second in a three-part Health AGEnda series on the Hartford Foundation’s 2013 Annual Report: Spreading Innovation Through Collaboration. Although he was a star in a different field, something basketball legend Michael Jordan once said applies equally to the work of the John A. Hartford Foundation: “Talent wins…
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The latest cohort of fellows in Sigma Theta Tau International's Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy pose for a group photo with their leadership mentors, faculty, and representatives of Sigma Theta Tau and the Hartford Foundation. I recently traveled to Indianapolis, home to Sigma Theta Tau International, the honor society of…
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