Volume 5, Issue 3
March 22, 2009
In This Issue
- Hartford Trustees Award New Grants (March 2009)
- Foundation Launches Health AGEnda Blog
- Center for Effective Philanthropy Report Available
- Eldercare Workforce Alliance Digs In
- 30th Video Completes How to Try This Assessment Series
- 2007 Annual Report Featured in Health Affairs GrantWatch
- CoE Recruiting Resources Available Online
- 2009 Health Outcomes Scholars Selected
- Upcoming Hartford Program Deadlines
1. Hartford Trustees Award New Grants
In December 2008, the trustees of the John A. Hartford Foundation approved the following grants:
Eldercare Workforce Alliance
The Foundation awarded a grant to The Tides Center to support the Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA), a coalition of 25 national organizations that have joined together to address the immediate and future workforce crisis in caring for an aging America. The EWA was created in response to the Institute of Medicine’s report, Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce, which called for immediate investments in preparing our health care system to care for older Americans and their families. The EWA’s structure represents four main interests: consumers of care; paraprofessional direct care workers; health care professionals, both generalists and geriatric specialists; and the health care industry.
For more information on the Eldercare Workforce Alliance, please see the article below and/or visit: www.eldercareworkforce.org.
The Tides Center, San Francisco, CA
Nancy Lundebjerg, American Geriatrics Society
Steve Dawson, Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute
Grant amount: $400,000 over three years
Fostering Geriatrics in Pre-licensure Nursing Education: Phase II
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 the initiative is to develop minimum educational standards for care of older adults, provide training and technical assistance to more than 750 faculty for implementation of the minimum standards, and support widespread implementation by facilitating access to existing and new geriatric resources by the 28,000 pre-licensure nursing faculty members of the National League for Nursing.
Community College of Philadelphia
National League for Nursing
Elaine Tagliareni
Grant amount: $684,000 over three years
2. Hartford Foundation Launches Health AGEnda Blog
This week, the Foundation launched its new blog, Health AGEnda. We’re very excited and hope that you’ll take a look, follow it, comment, and pass it along to your colleagues and friends in the health and aging world. The purpose of the blog is to share Foundation perspectives and stimulate discussion of the important health and aging issues of today, create another avenue of communication with grantees, and inform those in the health arena outside of aging about the issues that we care so deeply about. Take at look at: www.jhartfound.org/blog.
3. Center for Effective Philanthropy Report Available Online
In 2008, the Hartford Foundation contracted with the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) to conduct a grantee survey. We thank all of you who participated in this process—we know that it took time to share your opinions and thoughts, and we appreciate your effort.
Here are a few highlights from the report:
- Grantees gave the Foundation 99th percentile ratings on both “Impact on the Field” and “Impact on Grantee Organizations.”
- The Foundation is rated above the 90th percentile in non-monetary assistance to grantees, summarizing the value of activities such as advising grantees, brokering connections, and strategic planning.
- Grantees clearly value the highly engaged selection and evaluation processes used by the Foundation and believe that they strengthen their work.
- Staff understanding of grantee work was rated at or above the 90th percentile.
- Overall grantee satisfaction was high; however, it dropped slightly from the 2006 study.
The CEP report and details about the methodology are posted on the Foundation Web site at: www.jhartfound.org/publications.htm. We encourage you to review it and provide us with any reactions or thoughts. Feel free to email any of the Foundation staff or use our new Web-based mechanism for anonymous feedback, which can be found at: www.jhartfound.org/grantee_feedback.htm.
4. Eldercare Workforce Alliance Digs In
The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA), created in response to the IOM report Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce, with funding from the Hartford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies, will undertake a three-year, flexible campaign to achieve the implementation of IOM recommendations. EWA’s top priorities in its first year will be: 1) increasing compensation and training for direct care workers who deliver home and institutional care in order to expand this critical workforce and reduce the high worker turnover that undermines quality long-term care, and 2) building competence in geriatric care among health professionals through expansion of funding for federal training programs. As opportunities and progress dictate, the EWA will work to educate and inform policymakers about the recommendations of the IOM committee, provide analysis of policy options in response to particular proposals, and engage in limited public education efforts.
Read more about the EWA’s key policy priorities here or visit: www.eldercareworkforce.org.
5. 30th Video Completes How to Try This Assessment Series
The How to Try This assessment series published in the American Journal of Nursing, a collaborative project of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU’s College of Nursing and the American Journal of Nursing, is now complete. Started in October 2007, the Hartford Institute’s Try This series now includes 30 topics available as cost-free, Web-based demonstration videos and companion articles designed to build knowledge and assessment skills among those caring for older adults. The videos are unique in that they feature students, practicing nurses, other health professionals, and patients. Some of these topics include: fall risk assessment, delirium screening, restraint prevention, and pressure ulcer prevention.
The How to Try This assessment series showcases best practices and interdisciplinary approaches and is recommended for associate, baccalaureate, and graduate nursing programs as well as for practicing nurses. CEs are available for both the articles and the videos through the Web site, www.nursingcenter.com/ajnolderadults. To view the videos, go to: www.nursingcenter.com/library/static.asp?pageid=730390.
6. 2007 Annual Report Featured in Health Affairs GrantWatch
The 2007 Hartford Foundation Annual Report, highlighting the Foundation-funded Geriatric Interdisciplinary Teams in Practice (GITp) programs, was featured in the January/February 2009 issue of Health Affairs’ Grant Watch. The article mentions four models: Care Transitions Intervention, Care Management Plus, Virtual Integrated Practice, and the Senior Health and Wellness Clinic.
To read the Health Affairs article, please go to: content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/28/1/284.
You can find the Foundation’s 2007 Annual Report at: www.jhartfound.org/pdf%20files/JAHF_2007_Annual_Report.pdf.
7. CoE Recruiting Resources Available Online
The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), with funding from the Hartford Foundation, has created an online Network Resource Center for Centers of Excellence in Medicine and Training to use in planning recruitment efforts. The site, www.geriatricsrecruitment.org, includes descriptions of successful approaches to attracting students and residents to careers in geriatric medicine, recruiting candidates to geriatrics fellowships and faculty positions, and managing program growth and development in academic geriatrics. For more information, visit the Web site.
8. 2009 Health Outcomes Scholars Selected
The Hartford Geriatrics Health Outcomes Research Scholars Awards Program, administered by the American Geriatrics Society, has selected two 2009 scholars. The Health Outcomes Scholars program supports physician-scientists committed to improving the healthcare of older adults during the critical transition from junior faculty to independent researcher. Recipients each receive a $200,000 grant over a two-year period to perform studies in outcomes research topics focused on the improved care of older adults. Research findings are presented at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting at the conclusion of the recipient’s grant.
The 2009 scholars and their areas of research are:
Jane Givens, MD, Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research
Experiences of Family Members of Nursing Home Patients with Advanced Dementia
Daniel Matlock, MD, University of Colorado, Denver
Measuring the Quality of the Decision to Receive an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator
For more information about the Health Outcomes Scholars program, visit: www.healthinaging.org/hartford.
9. Upcoming Hartford Program Funding Deadlines
April 2, 2009
The Practice Change Fellows Program
www.practicechangefellows.org
April 8, 2009
Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing Summer Scholars Institute
http://www.hartfordign.org/uploads/File/summer_scholars_announcement_2009.pdf
April 10, 2009
Gero-Ed Specialized Gerontology Program
depts.washington.edu/geroctr/Center2/sub2_10_1SpecGero.html
May 1, 2009
Hartford Pre-Dissertation Awards in Geriatric Social Work
www.gswi.org/programs/predissertation.html
August 3, 2009
Hartford Doctoral Fellows in Geriatric Social Work
www.gswi.org/programs/hdf.html
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