The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging held an important public hearing last week entitled, “The Arc of Alzheimer’s: From Preventing Cognitive Decline in Americans to Assuring Quality Care for those Living with the Disease.” It was encouraging to see that some of our nation’s top policymakers are paying attention…
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I recently had the opportunity to speak with The John A. Hartford Foundation’s longtime partner and friend, Daniel Reingold, President & CEO of RiverSpring Health, a leading non-profit senior care organization that cares for 12,000 older New Yorkers every day. RiverSpring Health includes the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, which is…
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Editor's Note: This post was originally published on The Huffington Post, where Dr. Terry Fulmer writes regularly on issues of importance to improving the care of older adults. Dementia is devastating. Most of us have seen or experienced the toll on families that comes with caring for someone with Alzheimer’s…
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Three new grants totaling almost $950,000 have been approved by The John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees to support partnerships that will accelerate improvements in our family caregiving program area, as well as strengthen aging-focused philanthropy more generally. Our latest grants build on our work to improve care of…
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Our nation is talking a lot about access to affordable, high-quality health care right now. Whatever the outcome of the current debates about the future of health care, one result will be this: the often opaque connection between health care policy and the everyday lives of people has come into…
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Health care providers in every setting must understand that older people experience specific health issues, from multiple chronic conditions to changes in physiology, that require a specific approach to care. Risk factors for complications following medical procedures are often higher and different for older adults. A friend of a…
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Editor's Note: This post by Terry Fulmer, Let’s Work Together To Improve Care For Older Adults With Complex Needs, was originally published on the Health Affairs Blog, February 14, 2017. Copyright ©2017 Health Affairs by Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. In the three minutes it takes to…
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Editor’s note: Mary Jane Koren, MD, MPH, is providing program consulting to The John A. Hartford Foundation, after retiring in 2013 as Vice President of Delivery System Reform at the Commonwealth Fund. My mother recently celebrated her 100th birthday, a milestone event which caused me to reflect on the The…
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We are experiencing a true call to action from policymakers, health system leaders, funders, and the public to recognize and support the nearly 18 million family caregivers who toil daily to care for loved ones in their communities. As part of that call, I recently had the pleasure of presenting…
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Every day, each one of us is growing older and growing wiser and more experienced. In so many ways, we get better as we age. But too often, we only associate aging with decline, debility, and eventual death. This fatalistic view is so pervasive that it can actually harm our…
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