Search johnahartford.org Sort by: Relevance Most Recent Oldest Searched for | Total Results: 5576 Building the Field of Palliative Care Together September 30, 2014 - Funders share information on investments in palliative care at the recent convening spearheaded by the Hartford Foundation. Palliative care is an essential component of care for the seriously ill. Yet, the term is often misunderstood by policymakers, the public, health care providers, and, no surprise, even those in philanthropy… Grappling with the Tough Questions of How We Live—and Die October 02, 2014 - I think it would be safe to say that most of us have trouble facing our own mortality. The idea that tomorrow isn’t promised fails to get many of us to actually live that way (I know I’m guilty). Longer term and more connected to the John A. Hartford Foundation’s… Remembering Kathryn Dineen Wriston, 75 October 07, 2014 - Kathryn Dineen Wriston, right, with her beloved husband Walter B. Wriston, circa early 1990s. (Photo A) Kathy Wriston was an elegant and accomplished woman whose delightful sense of humor and natural openness drew others to her—and to the causes she passionately supported. She will be sorely missed. Her death… Health Services Research Needs Good Theory to Turn into Better Practice October 09, 2014 - Last week, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a large and well-designed study of a post-hospital readmission reduction program called the “virtual ward,” which grew up in the UK and was tested by our cousins to the north in Toronto. The model partakes of some elements of… Pitting Older Adults Against Children in Funding Debate Is a Zero-Sum Game October 16, 2014 - The house is burning with a child and his elderly grandmother inside. Which one should be saved? Too often, this feels like the question being posed when thinking about the allocation of resources, whether through policy action or philanthropic investments. But this is the wrong question. In most cases, there… Adventures in Choosing Wisely October 23, 2014 - Amy Berman prepares for her image guided radiation therapy. I live with stage IV cancer—cancer that has spread to the far reaches of my body, an incurable disease, a terminal diagnosis. But if you saw me—if our carts randomly bumped into each other in the supermarket—you would never think… Tools You Can Use: The Quality Care Through a Quality Workforce Toolkit October 30, 2014 - We were introduced to Sally and her daughter Edna last year in a video from our grantee Community Catalyst. I learned recently that Sally has since passed away, but I am so grateful that her and her daughter’s story lives on. It embodies the promise of the Voices for Better… Hartford Grantees Recognized at GSA November 06, 2014 - For almost 20 years, the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has been one of the John A. Hartford Foundation’s key grantee partners. The organization served first as the home of the Geriatric Social Work Initiative (GSWI), then as the coordinating center for the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence… Hartford Foundation and CMMI Work Together to Spread Hospital at Home Model November 13, 2014 - For two decades, the John A. Hartford Foundation has invested in the development and spread of the Hospital at Home model of care, which provides safe, high-quality, hospital-level care to older adults with select conditions in the comfort of their own home. Over those years, studies have consistently shown that… Share Your Family Caregiving Story November 20, 2014 - Are you a family caregiver of an older adult or a health care provider who works with family caregivers? Have you seen the challenges of caregiving up close and discovered ways of overcoming them? If you said yes, you have an important story to tell and we want you to…
