Search johnahartford.org Sort by: Relevance Most Recent Oldest Searched for | Total Results: 2142 Promoting an Age-Friendly Ecosystem: Harnessing Consumer Insights to Advance “Age-Friendly” in Health Care and Across Settings June 10, 2021 - A grant to the Age-Friendly Institute will support a three-year initiative to increase consumer understanding and drive demand for age-friendly care. The Age-Friendly Institute operates agefriendly.org, a crowd-sourced, online resource utilizing user-generated ratings and reviews to empower older adults to demand age-friendly communities, services and care where they live and… Engaging Family Caregivers through Shared Access to the Electronic Health Record June 10, 2021 - This project implements a demonstration in three health systems to increase the uptake and use of shared electronic health record access by family caregivers of older adults, evaluate its effects and disseminate best practices to promote national adoption. Because millions of older adults manage their health with the help of… Revisiting the Teaching Nursing Home June 10, 2021 - This grant will implement a contemporary version of the Teaching Nursing Home model in three regions of Pennsylvania to demonstrate how enhanced partnerships between academic nursing schools and skilled nursing facilities can improve quality and cost outcomes. The project will draw upon existing resources from the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative… Convergence Dialogue on Reimagining Care for Older Adults June 10, 2021 - This 15-month project will assess the perspectives, values and vision of key and diverse stakeholders, develop areas of agreement and create an implementation and dissemination plan for public support of consensus-based recommendations to reimagine the care of older adults in nursing homes and the range of settings they call home… A National Initiative to Advance Cost Information in Shared Decision-Making for Serious Health Conditions June 10, 2021 - This project will develop, test and plan dissemination of shared decision-making tools to help older adults and their family caregivers understand cost information for treatment options based on clinical evidence while balancing risks and outcomes aligned with their preferences and values. The project’s four-phased approach includes: needs assessment/gap analysis, development… The John A. Hartford Foundation Annual Report Better Care Playbook Evidence Roundups: Home-Based Primary Care, Hospital at Home for Medicaid Enrollees & Medicaid Health Home Collections July 29, 2025 - The Better Care Playbook has published an evidence roundup resource collection focusing on home-based primary care, as well as two new evidence roundups on Hospital at Home programs for Medicaid enrollees and Medicaid Health Homes for individuals with behavioral health conditions. GEMCast: Geriatric Emergency Medicine Podcast Series December 13, 2023 - The podcast series, Geriatric Emergency Medicine's GEMCast, has released a new episode titled, "How Paramedics Can Make a Difference in Geriatric Care.” National Collaboratory to Address Elder Mistreatment Phase III: Expanding the Impact of the Elder Mistreatment Emergency Department Toolkit September 16, 2021 - One in 10 older adults is affected by elder abuse, neglect or other forms of mistreatment. The Elder Mistreatment Emergency Department Toolkit, developed and tested by a leading team of national experts, detects and prevents elder abuse through screening protocols in emergency departments. The National Collaboratory to Address Elder Mistreatment… Geriatric Surgery Verification (GSV) Phase II: Evaluation and Improvement September 16, 2021 - The Geriatric Surgery Verification Program is designed to ensure appropriate, safe, high-quality surgical care for older adults aligned with what matters most to them. This project will evaluate content, implementation and outcomes of the new verification program to foster broad dissemination to diverse sites, including rural settings and safety net…
