New Grants Totaling Nearly $1.4 Million Approved by JAHF Board of Trustees
The John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees has approved funding for three grants totaling $1,399,883 to improve care for older adults and family caregivers.
Center for Medicare Advocacy, Community Catalyst, Justice in Aging, PHI: Strengthening Policy to Support Older Adults and Their Caregivers: General Operating Support ($200,000 per organization for 2 years)
General operating support grants to four advocacy organizations that educate on aging issues will help ensure access to high-quality health care for older adults and support for family caregivers. The Center for Medicare Advocacy, Community Catalyst, Justice in Aging and PHI each has a particular focus on groups that face disproportionate burdens and poorer health outcomes such as low-income older adults, older adults of color and the direct care workers who care for them.
FrameWorks Institute: Skilled, Long-Term Framing: Building Capacity to Communicate about Nursing Homes ($499,883 for 18 months)
The COVID-19 outbreak has brought nursing homes into the public consciousness, but often through a negative lens that impedes productive, solution-focused conversation. Through this grant, the FrameWorks Institute will build on the work of the Reframing Aging Initiative to develop a powerful communications strategy to help stakeholders articulate a vision for nursing home care that is more effective, inclusive and equitable for residents and staff. The FrameWorks Institute will launch new research into the public’s understanding of nursing home care, offer support to nursing home communicators and share recommendations with advocates and experts interested in the health and safety of older adults, other residents and nursing home staff.
Milken Institute, Center for the Future of Aging: Alliance to Improve Dementia Care ($100,000 for one year)
This grant will support the Alliance to Improve Dementia Care, which was developed by the Milken Institute’s Center for the Future of Aging to improve dementia care outcomes, support family caregivers and reduce costs. The Alliance will bring together partners from health systems, provider groups, industry, research, advocacy, philanthropy, academia and government. Grant funding will support the distribution of a series of action-oriented reports that promote new policies for a dementia-capable workforce and health system, reduce gender and racial disparities and advance coordinated payment and care delivery models aligned with Age-Friendly Health Systems.