September 2013
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Hartford Foundation Trustees Approve Three Grants Totaling $6.06 Million
The John A. Hartford Foundation has approved three grants totaling $6.06 million to improve the health of older adults in support of its new strategic plan focused on putting geriatrics expertise to work in health care delivery and practice. The Board of Trustees awarded a three-year, $5,062,819 grant to the Gerontological Society of America to create the Hartford Change AGEnts Initiative, which will capitalize on the strengths, resources, and expertise of the more than 1,000 nurses, social workers, and physicians the Foundation has supported over the past 20 years.
The Trustees also awarded a two-year, $584,150 grant to Community Catalyst, a national leader in involving consumers in transforming health care, to support the engagement of geriatrics experts in its Voices for Better Health project to advocate for evidence-based, high-quality health plans for dually eligible beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid. And the Board approved an 18-month, $415,422 grant to the National Committee for Quality Assurance to support the first stage of a multi-phase initiative that will develop outcomes-based performance measures to improve the quality and experience of care for dually enrolled Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries.
Direct-Care Workers Win Minimum Wage, OT Protections
Congratulations to grantees PHI and the Eldercare Workforce Alliance for their success in winning minimum wage and overtime protections for direct-care workers, who provide an estimated 70 to 80 percent of paid, hands-on, long-term care and personal assistance to older Americans and people living with disabilities.
Health AGEnda Highlights
Among recent posts on our Health AGEnda blog: Rachael Watman kicks off our new blog series "What the Heck Are Hartford's New Funding Areas?" by explaining the new Leadership in Action portfolio. Wally Patawaran writes about the launch of the second round of open competition to select Social Innovation Fund subgrantees to help spread the IMPACT model of depression care further into the rural Northwest.
Amy Berman shares her favorite aging and health “tweeps” (that’s Twitter people, for the uninitiated) and explains why you should be following them, too. Nora OBrien-Suric’s blog post two years ago on her father’s experience with post-operative confusion continues to draw new readers and comments, so she talks about what we’ve learned and what the Hartford Foundation is doing to to help educate health care professionals and caregivers about delirium.
And as we marked World Alzheimer’s Day over the weekend, Chris Langston writes about the impact that Alzheimer’s disease is having in the U.S., and what Hartford grantees are doing to improve the care of people with Alzheimer’s and reduce the burden faced by their families.
These are just a few of the compelling posts featured twice a week on Health AGEnda. Don't want to miss a post? Subscribe through RSS or e-mail. You can also follow the Hartford Foundation and the blog via Facebook.
For more on what's happening in aging and health, visit our News and Events sections on jhartfound.org.
Communications Tip: Poster Perfect
There’s still time to sign up for the next Bandwidth webinar session on posters, an often underutilized communications vehicle:
Thinking Inside the Box: Four Simple Steps to More Effective Posters
Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013
1:00-2:15 p.m. EST
This 75-minute webinar will help you create a message-driven poster that makes an impact at your next poster session. The webinar has been designed specifically to meet the needs of scholars/fellows/junior faculty members and will help you understand the four basic steps to more effective posters.
Visit our free communications resources website, BandwidthOnline.org, for more information about this webinar and other communications tools.
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