February 2014
Hartford Change AGEnts Making a Splash!
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the new Hartford Change AGEnts splash page www.changeagents365.org, developed by the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). The new landing page provides you with the most up-to-date information and allows you to sign up for e-mail updates. You can also contact us with any questions you may have about Change AGEnts.
The GSA-based site will continue to be upgraded and a searchable AGEnts database will launch in March, with other resources, tools, and opportunities all geared to help you make change in the way health care is delivered to older Americans.
If you missed the first Hartford Change AGEnts Webinar—What’s In It For Them: Developing Powerful Value Propositions—you can listen to it for free on BandwidthOnline.org, the John A. Hartford Foundation’s one-stop, online source for communications tools and information. Creating meaningful value propositions is a fundamental part of any successful local, regional, or national effort to change care, services, organizations, systems, or policy.
For more information on this 75-minute webinar, visit http://www.bandwidthonline.org/whats_hot.asp.
And for those attending the American Geriatrics Society annual meeting in Orlando, FL, in May, we will be hosting a Hartford Change AGEnts event the evening of Friday, May 16, following an event for Centers of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine Scholars. We value the opportunity to convene our Change AGEnts to network, showcase the pioneering work of the AGEnts, feature our newest resources and opportunities, and to hear directly from you about how we should be doing business.
We are enormously grateful to our partners in this effort—the American Geriatrics Society, the American Federation for Aging Research, and the Gerontological Society of America. Details to come.
Finally, check out Rachael Watman’s Health AGEnda post Valentines for Hartford Change AGEnts (and my Dziadzia) for more updates on this exciting initiative.
Please be sure to bookmark www.changeagents365.org to keep up to date with all that’s going on. You can also follow the action on Twitter using the hashtag #changeagents365.
Health AGEnda Highlights
Among recent posts on our Health AGEnda blog: In the latest installment of our Tools You Can Use series, Rachael Watman shares a series of educational videos to help interdisciplinary health professional trainees better manage transitions of care for older patients across different care settings. And Chris Langston takes issue with a recent New York Times article criticizing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations for failing to use randomized experimental trials.
Meanwhile, Amy Berman writes about a recent Philanthropy New York member briefing that helped bring to light the issues related to the direct care workforce and what funders can do to help. And Marcus Escobedo takes a look at an innovative project in New York that is exploring whether EMTs can help improve outcomes for older patients discharged from the emergency room.
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.
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