Recently, the Health Affairs GrantWatch editor invited Eric Coleman and I to write a blog post about provisions to address transitions of care in the recently passed legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Section 3026 of HR 3590). The Community-Based Care Transition Program included in the legislation is…
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Every strength has its intrinsic weaknesses, and every weakness its own strength. Although health care reform is just the beginning of a process to improve the quality and value of health care, it is definitely a compromise, with all the imperfections you would expect with multiple committees of designers. The…
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I joined Rachael Watman and other colleagues at the Association of Health Care Journalists annual conference in Chicago, where we pushed our “prescription for a great story”--the work of our grantees to improve the health of older adults. As Rachael explained in “Getting the Word Out on Geriatric Care,”…
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This is what we are pushing. A prescription for a great story in aging and health.
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Today I’m writing from the annual meeting of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ), which we are co-sponsoring this year. AHCJ is an independent, nonprofit, 1,000-member organization dedicated to advancing the public’s understanding of health care issues. I’m here with several of my colleagues to promote the good work…
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A few weeks ago, I gave some preliminary reactions to the passage of health reform from the perspective of advancing the foundation’s mission of improving health care for older adults. I tried to cover the good things and the bad, in two posts – glass half full and glass half…
Read full postLet’s face it. Despite the reality that all health care professionals will be working with older adults in some capacity in the near future (there will be 70 million older adults by 2030), aging is a hard sell. While there are an enlightened few, most students in nursing, medicine, and…
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Every year, we at the Hartford Foundation have a staff retreat. In years past we have focused on fairly conventional business team development activities such as Myers-Briggs personality tests and interpersonal communications training, but our retreat last week was real. “Real” in the sense in that we engaged in a…
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Older Americans are not getting very good quality health care, as findings from many studies and experts show. However, most older adults and their caregivers don’t realize that they are getting substandard care. Given that most people are unfamiliar with the various guidelines for the treatment of chronic conditions and…
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Time and again I find myself amazed and delighted at the sheer magnitude of recognition Hartford grantees continue to garner from both the public and their peers for demonstrating leadership in the field of aging. Most recently, Partners in Care Foundation, under the direction of CEO W. June Simmons, received…
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