Search johnahartford.org Sort by: Relevance Most Recent Oldest Searched for | Total Results: 2142 Geriatric Orthopedic Hip-Fracture Co-Management Implementation December 13, 2016 - A grant to the American Geriatrics Society will disseminate a geriatrics-orthopedic co-management intervention that improves the experience and outcomes of care for hip-fracture patients while reducing costs. The project builds on a recent planning grant which demonstrated a clear need and a viable market for adoption of a co-management model… Development of the High-Need, High-Cost Playbook Version 2.0 December 13, 2016 - The John A. Hartford Foundation has continued its partnership with four other foundations—The Commonwealth Fund, the Peterson Center on Healthcare, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and The SCAN Foundation—in supporting better care of people with complex health and social needs, many of whom are older adults. Together, as an initial… National Co-Laboratory to Address Elder Mistreatment December 13, 2016 - A grant to the Education Development Center will convene leading national experts in four states across the country to develop, test and evaluate a prototype model of intervention for victims of elder mistreatment. An estimated 10 percent of older adults—5 million people—are victims of elder abuse, neglect, exploitation and other… Kaiser Health News: The Late Life and Geriatric Care Reporting Project December 13, 2016 - This three-year partnership with Kaiser Health News (KHN), the nation’s leading health policy news service, will establish a top-tier reporting desk that will build awareness and understanding of geriatric care issues among the public, policymakers, and the health care sector. KHN will focus on both problems and solutions in how… Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Advanced Illness December 13, 2016 - In order to improve the care of older adults living with serious illness and at end of life, this project will promote and accelerate implementation of recommendations from the 2014 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life. The… Reducing Harm to Medicare Beneficiaries - Improving Hospital Observation Status and Other Policies December 13, 2016 - This project will raise visibility and diminish the negative impact of the “observation status” classification of older hospitalized adults through outreach and education by the Center for Medicare Advocacy (CMA). Observation status is a categorization of Medicare patients who are deemed to be outpatients rather than admitted inpatients in hospitals… Oral Health for America’s Seniors - Expanding Medicare December 13, 2016 - Older adults often have chronic diseases that may exacerbate oral health conditions, and vice versa. Medicare, however, does not cover dental care except in very rare circumstances and more than 70 percent of the Medicare-aged population has no dental insurance, leading to impairments in both their oral and overall health… Moving and Scaling Home-Based Primary Care into the Mainstream of U.S. Health Care December 13, 2016 - This initiative aims to improve the health of the most frail and vulnerable elders living in the community by increasing access to and the quality of home-based primary care. The work involves three projects. Under the leadership of long-time JAHF grantees Bruce Leff and Christine Ritchie and in partnership with… Online Resource for Comparing Evidence-Based Dementia Caregiving Programs March 06, 2017 - This project will improve the lives of families caring for older adults with dementia by developing a web-based resource that helps health and social service organizations compare and select evidence-based caregiver support programs for implementation. The project aligns with recommendations from the Families Caring for an Aging America report from… Grantmakers In Aging: Core Support Renewal March 06, 2017 - This renewal grant will provide operational support to Grantmakers In Aging (GIA) to increase the impact of aging-related philanthropy through a strong focus on communications, outreach, education, and convening that fosters collaboration between its more than 100 foundation members. Over the next three years GIA will update and revise its…
