An old medical text from the Qing Dynasty. What does China know about the importance of social workers that our own government doesn’t? That question came to mind after I read an op-ed in The New York Times last week titled No Country for Old Age by Mark W…
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Earlier this month, the Health AGEnda reached a milestone with its 1,000th reader comment/repost. In response to Nora OBrien-Suric writing about how challenging it can be to coordinate care for her increasingly frail, demented friend – even when that friend is a geriatric social worker surrounded by experts in elder…
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Elena O. Siegel, an assistant professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at University of California-Davis and a 2011 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar, is a fine example of the kind of nurse leaders the new fellowship hopes to create. Siegel is a former Claire…
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally written for the Health Affairs Grant Watch Blog. For more than twenty years, the John A. Hartford Foundation has worked to improve the health of older Americans. And over that time, institutionally, we have shifted from deep skepticism about publicity and communications to what…
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John A. Hartford, left, and George L. Hartford pose for their portrait circa 1950. The portrait behind them is of their father and A&P founder George Huntington Hartford. The John A. Hartford Foundation, known more simply as the Hartford Foundation, frequently gets associated with a certain city in Connecticut…
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Patient engagement has been all the rage this week. Health Affairs held a DC briefing for their February issue focused on the topic, highlighting new evidence that patients engaged in their own health care have better health outcomes and can possibly cost the system less. Our own Amy Berman, a…
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We at the Hartford Foundation talk a lot about what quality care that is comprehensive and coordinated would look like and how it would benefit older people. But what if an older person is surrounded by really smart, knowledgeable, and caring family and friends who have helped put together the…
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UPDATE: See the Heroes of Geriatric Care Story Contest Rules and Submission Details HERE. If anyone has seen ur-communications guru Andy Goodman in action, you know that he makes a strong case for the role of stories in social change. Stories are how humans share (and create wisdom). Stories are…
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In the fall of 2012, as part of our commitment to effective grantmaking, we fielded a survey of grantees and scholars to assess what kinds of technical assistance and support might be useful as the Hartford Foundation transitions out of its academic capacity building grants. The survey was part of…
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Partnerships, collaborations, coalitions, joint ventures—there are many ways to describe what happens when organizations work together toward a common goal. Early in my career I thought this was all about aggregating resources and power—find common ground with others, gain strength in numbers, and move an issue by pushing forward together…
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