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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Dr. Bill Buron In November 2013, Bill Buron, PhD, APRN, Clinical Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean for Nursing at the College of Nursing NW Arkansas Program, began his term as Chair of the Hartford Gerontological Nursing Leaders (HGNL), assuming the helm from Casey Shillam, PhD, RN. I asked Bill…
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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. Corinne H. Rieder, left, accepts the David H. Solomon Memorial Public Service Award from AGS President Dr. Wayne McCormick. Editor’s Note: Corinne H. Rieder, EdD, executive director and treasurer of the John A. Hartford Foundation, was honored at last week’s American Geriatrics Society (AGS) annual meeting with the…
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Jennie Chin Hansen, CEO of AGS, left, with Cory Rieder, the Hartford Foundation's executive director and treasurer. In honor of the American Geriatrics Society’s (AGS) annual meeting opening today in Orlando, we want to reflect on the key role this partner organization has played in our joint efforts to…
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Cory Rieder, PhD, left, with Dr. David H. Solomon. Dr. Rieder will receive the David H. Solomon Memorial Public Service Award,, named for the geriatrics pioneer who died last year. One of the highlights of our year is the annual meeting of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS). AGS is…
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Last week on Health AGEnda, I stuck up for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) in the face of what seemed to me fairly unrealistic criticism from a Wall Street Journal op-ed. I approached the issue from my perspective as a funder and as a very, very, much…
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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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Gary Oftedahl, MD, Chief Knowledge Officer for the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, speaks at the CaRe Align initiative launch in Dallas. Older adults who typically live with many chronic conditions see, on average, two primary care providers and five specialists per year in four different medical practices. Such…
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When I first saw the Wall Street Journal op-ed attacking the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) for many purported sins, my first thought was that I should just congratulate CMMI for having arrived. After all, in our hyper-partisan environment, you aren’t anybody unless you are considered worth bashing…
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