Search johnahartford.org Sort by: Relevance Most Recent Oldest Searched for | Total Results: 2142 Professional Partners Supporting Family Caregiving - Phase II November 14, 2012 - The Foundation has funded a second phase of the Professional Partners Supporting Family Caregiving project, aimed at improving nursing and social work expertise in supporting families caring for older adults. The project, led by the AARP Foundation, will move the foundational work completed in Phase I into practice, guided… Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging Research Partnership (2010, 2011, 2012 Cohorts) November 14, 2012 - The Foundation has awarded a grant to the American Federation for Aging Research to continue the Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards program in partnership with the National Institute on Aging. To date, 152 Scholars from across the nation and the Island of Ireland have received Beeson awards. The highly-competitive… Fostering Geriatrics in Pre-licensure Nursing Education: Phase II November 14, 2012 - The Foundation awarded a grant to the Community College of Philadelphia and the National League for Nursing to build on a previous grant that identified faculty development in geriatrics for associate degree nursing program faculty as an important step in preparing nurses to care for older adults. The goal of… Fostering Geriatrics in Pre-licensure Nursing Education: Phase II November 14, 2012 - The Foundation awarded a grant to the Community College of Philadelphia and the National League for Nursing to build on a previous grant that identified faculty development in geriatrics for associate degree nursing program faculty as an important step in preparing nurses to care for older adults. The goal… Hartford Doctoral Fellows in Geriatric Social Work Program Renewal November 14, 2012 - The John A. Hartford Foundation has awarded the Gerontological Society of America a renewal grant to recruit and prepare up to 99 talented doctoral students for academic careers in geriatric social work, with awards of up to $50,000 per student to complete their dissertation research. The Doctoral Fellows program will… Dissemination of Care Management Plus: Information Technology Tools for the Care of Seniors November 26, 2012 - The John A. Hartford Foundation has awarded a grant to Oregon Health & Science University to implement the successfully tested Care Management Plus model of health care for elders, which utilizes a care manager and computer technology and should reduce deaths, decrease re-hospitalizations, and improve disease management for thousands of… Establishing a Geriatrics Workforce Policy Studies Center to Support Advocacy for Improved Geriatric November 26, 2012 - The John A. Hartford Foundation has awarded a grant to the American Geriatrics Society to establish a Geriatrics Workforce Policy Studies Center to serve as a source of data and communications in support of policy and advocacy efforts to expand the geriatrics health care workforce. Specifically, grant funding will be… Geriatric Leadership Development Program November 26, 2012 - Leadership training for 20 recently appointed leaders of medical school geriatrics divisions, and a scholars program for 16 senior directors is being supported under this renewal grant. In addition, partial funding is provided for three annual leadership retreats for approximately 60 program directors. The Practive Change Fellows: An Interdisciplinary Leadership Program to Improve Health Care for Olde November 26, 2012 - This program will expand the number of health care leaders in medicine, nursing, and social work who can effectively promote high-quality care to older adults. In collaboration with funding from The Atlantic Philanthropies, the grant will support fellows with leadership potential and demonstrated ability to implement and sustain new geriatric… Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence Utah November 26, 2012 - The John A. Hartford Foundation has funded four new Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence to prepare over 500 nursing faculty members with expertise in geriatrics. The schools of nursing at Arizona State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the Universities of Minnesota and Utah have each designed new centers to recruit…
