Our most recent annual report celebrated the John A. Hartford Foundation’s 30-year commitment to improving the health of older adults. As part of the online, interactive version of the report, we asked some of our long-time grantees to help us tell the Foundation’s story by sharing short and sweet video messages about our past successes, our current projects, and our new directions.
We want to highlight a few of these brief video clips, each only about one minute long, and invite you to browse and share the other messages in our dynamic online annual report.
In this first video, David Reuben, director of the Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and director of the Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine at UCLA, points out the changes he’s seen over the past three decades in how geriatrics is incorporated into medical student education. Dr. Reuben was a beneficiary of the 1983 Hartford Geriatrics Faculty Development Awards, Hartford’s earliest program to build up the field of geriatrics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKojHxpVDzg
Our videos also highlight several of our current and ongoing grant projects. Below, PHI President Jodi Sturgeon discusses the importance of creating quality jobs for home health aides and other direct care workers in order to provide quality care to their older adult clients. The Hartford Foundation first funded PHI in 2006 and will continue to support models that utilize an effective direct care workforce to achieve good health outcomes for older adults.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV285-_tPSM
In the next video, our grantee Diane Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, discusses the high need among older adults for the extra layer of support that palliative care offers to those who have serious illnesses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30n5ps6grwg
And finally, Eric Coleman, head of the Division of Health Care Policy and Research at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and developer of the Hartford-funded Care Transitions Intervention, succinctly comments on the new strategic directions of the Hartford Foundation as we move from our academic capacity building grants to our new approaches focused directly on changing health care practice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aueXVVECHJk
You can find other videos throughout the annual report. We are grateful for all of the grantees who, through their video messages, are helping us convey our past successes and hoped-for future impact to improve the health of older adults.