This week I had the privilege of attending a grantee convening of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation - one of the agenda setting institutions in medical education. Macy's insider role in medical education makes it even more significant that the topic of the meeting was Interprofessional Education in health care…
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Early last week, the John A. Hartford Foundation submitted our first ever grant application. We’ve always been the recipient of grant applications, so the process for us was new and exciting, and a terrific learning experience. It reflects a changing philanthropic landscape in which we operate, a new opportunity to…
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act turned two years old last week. Its birthday party continued this week with nine U.S. Supreme Court justices who will decide the constitutionality of the mandate requiring individuals to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty. Whatever the outcome, many believe it’s…
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My uncle, an avid jogger, trained for years with the Road Runners in New York City. He preferred to jog in Manhattan’s Central Park. He knew families of squirrels there, feeding them walnuts when he stopped to rest. He said that one squirrel would come up to him and personally…
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Last week, I wrote about serendipitously discovering the work of Primary Care Progress, a grassroots physician advocacy group trying to strengthen primary care. The serendipity continued shortly after I saw their work in cyberspace, when I got a chance to meet some of its leaders in the real world (in…
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What is your work about? Why are you doing it? If you have ever had trouble answering those questions—whether they are asked by a colleague, a friend, a mentor, a journalist, or your mother—you may need some help with your messaging. The next installment of our Build Your Bandwidth webinar…
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As a way to keep in touch with developments in health care for older adults and feed the raging “Jhartfound” social media beast (joke), I have a series of Google searches running that send me an e-mail digest every night of new online content that uses terms like geriatric, long-term…
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All the knowledge in the world is useless if no one can find it. One of the best places to look for knowledge about geriatrics is the Portal of Geriatric Online Education, best known as POGOe. With more than 740 products on a wide array of topics in geriatric education…
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It was a pleasant coincidence that I found myself at the Kennedy Space Station the same day they were celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Senator/Astronaut John Glenn’s orbit around the earth. I hadn’t seen Senator Glenn since I worked at the International Longevity Center, where he was a member…
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At the Foundation we believe that improving the health of older Americans is a burning issue. We get up every morning thinking about how we can support our grantees to advance this mission, and we try to find ways that we ourselves can add value, beyond traditional grantmaking and monitoring…
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