Search johnahartford.org Sort by: Relevance Most Recent Oldest Searched for | Total Results: 2142 Assessing the Impact of The John A. Hartford Foundation’s Grantmaking March 06, 2017 - This project will provide the Foundation with an assessment of the outcomes and impact that its last three decades of grantmaking have had on the field of aging and health. Specifically the review will focus on the Foundation’s support of the development of evidence-based models of care and its programs… PACE 2.0 - Adapting and Disseminating PACE to Serve High-Need, High-Cost Populations June 15, 2017 - PACE (Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) enables older adults to avoid nursing home placement by providing coordinated medical and social services to frail, low-income elders and currently serves about 40,000 older adults. With the goal of scaling the PACE model to serve a total of 200,000 older adults… Understanding Information Continuity and its Impact on Care for Older Adults June 15, 2017 - This project will lead to improvements in care continuity for older adults through research on the ways that information continuity affects patients as they transition between care settings. The project team will collect new, and analyze existing, qualitative and quantitative data on what constitutes effective information continuity for ensuring safe… Documentary Treatment of “The Best Years: A Film about the Last Phase of Life” June 15, 2017 - This project will support the first phase of developing a major national television documentary about the planning and decisions that should be made by individuals and their families in advance of a life-limiting diagnosis. At the conclusion of this phase, a proposal will be brought to the Board to move… Dissemination of a Comprehensive Dementia Care Program that Focuses on Patients and Caregivers June 15, 2017 - This one-year planning grant will develop resources, partnerships, and a strategy for the planned dissemination of the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care program. The work includes convening stakeholders to guide the project and facilitate dissemination, creating an online training course for nursing Dementia Care Managers, and developing an implementation plan… Demonstration of Person-Driven Outcome Measures for an Age-Friendly Health System September 14, 2017 - There is broad agreement that people’s priorities and health goals should guide their care, and yet, existing health care quality measures do not effectively evaluate what is most important to individuals, particularly older adults with complex care needs. This grant to NCQA will improve the lives of older people by… Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care September 14, 2017 - Nearly half of the 18 million family caregivers in the U.S. who assist older adults perform complex medical/nursing tasks with very little training or support, as revealed in the 2012 AARP/United Hospital Fund Home Alone study, funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation. This project with the AARP-led Home Alone… Implementation of Rehabilitation at Home September 14, 2017 - This project will refine the Rehabilitation at Home care model and propose a new payment mechanism within Medicare to enable more older adults to receive post-acute rehabilitation services at home, improving quality and cost outcomes. The Rehabilitation at Home care model grew out of the Hospital at Home program, developed… Advancing Legal and Medical Collaboration in Advance Care Planning September 11, 2017 - Advance care planning for the end of life is an essential component of person and family-centered care. However, legal and health care professionals are not well-aligned in advance care planning processes and this often results in legal documents that are not actionable in clinical settings. This project intends to bridge… The John A. Hartford Foundation State Aging Index September 14, 2017 - This one-year project will extend the recently released international John A. Hartford Foundation Aging Society Index to the domestic state level and examine the impact of state programs and policies on the status and well-being of older adults. The project will begin by establishing measures in several relevant domains: social…
