Greetings from Boston! Most of the John A. Hartford Foundation’s program staff are here in the land of “Hahvahd,” “cahs,” and “pahking,” preparing for a busy weekend at the 64th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Many of our grantees will be in attendance as well, and…
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This is a busy season of conferences and meetings, and at each one I attend I give an update on the Geriatric Social Work Initiative (GSWI). Because there seems to be a lot of questions and myths about the status of the GSWI, I thought it would be useful to…
Read full postHere you can find the third installment of our Beyond the Boardroom series, in which we feature a prominent speaker in the field of aging and/or health care. Clifford Ko, MD, MS, Director of Research and Optimal Patient Care for the American College of Surgeons, presented information about his work…
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Knowing that the vast majority of reports, even the best of them, such as the Institute of Medicine’s Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce, wind up sitting on shelves gathering dust, in 2008 The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Hartford Foundation launched the Eldercare Workforce Alliance to…
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Trust is the name of the game when we visit our physicians. We trust them to have our health as priority #1, that they will be honest and upfront with us, and we trust that they are competent and skilled in their practice. We have good reason for this trust…
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A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of being invited by NCB Capital Impact to learn more about The Green House Project, which is led by Robert Jenkens, and to celebrate the opening of the 100th Green House home in West Orange, New Jersey. The Green House home is…
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I have been celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness month. This isn’t just because I had the good fortune to celebrate my birthday in October, but because one year after being diagnosed with a terminal illness and choosing to treat it non-aggressively, I feel great. I have less pain than I did…
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“Dr. Dale, I read an article you wrote,” he said. I was taken aback. A long-standing, favorite patient of mine, an older African American man from Chicago’s south side with HIV and prostate cancer, was claiming to have found the time and inclination to dig up, and read, one of…
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The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has just announced its new Innovation Advisors fellowship program. This fast track program (applications due November 15, 2011) will offer: An opportunity to become an integral part of CMMI’s efforts to transform health care…
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This blog by UCSF professor and geriatrician Sei Lee, MD, recently ran on the GeriPal blog on September 29, 2011. It explores the complex tension between under- and overtreating older adults. I wanted to get this community's thoughts on a recent article that made some headlines (see ABC news and…
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