Advancing Aging and Health Policy Understanding Renewal George Washington University 2008

Grant Summary

The John A. Hartford Foundation has renewed funding to the non-partisan National Health Policy Forum to provide congressional and regulatory staff with information and materials to better craft policies and programs that meet the health care needs of older adults. The Foundation has supported the aging-related health policy work of the Forum since 1997. Funding will be used to create at least four events or reports each year of the grant, targeting senior-level policy makers as well as more mid-level and junior staff members who need background and basic information. Because federal reimbursement and regulatory policies shape much of the nation's health care, over the next few years health services for older persons will be subject, among other potential measures, to cost containment efforts, attempts to realign the health care workforce, and possibly mandates for preventive care and chronic disease management. The Forum's programming, which will address these topics and others, is designed by expert staff with the help of an advisory board composed of recently retired senior congressional staff members.