John A. Hartford Foundation - Age-Friendly Health Systems

John A. Hartford Foundation - Age-Friendly Health Systems is sponsored by John A. Hartford Foundation.

Foundation invests in creating age-friendly health systems, supporting family caregivers, and improving serious illness and end-of-life care. Focus on helping older adults maintain health, function, and independence.

Age-Friendly Health Systems Policies and Financial Reports Age-Friendly Health Systems Serious Illness & End of Life Communications & Special Projects Age-Friendly Health Systems Initiative Policies and Financial Reports Age-Friendly Health Systems Serious Illness & End of Life Communications & Special Projects Age-Friendly Health Systems Initiative The John A.

Hartford Foundation Age-Friendly Health Systems Age-Friendly Health Systems Older adults have unique needs. To prevent harm to older adults, improve health outcomes, and lower overall costs, health systems must adopt evidence-based models and practices that deliver better care to our rapidly aging population across all settings, including the home and community. In partnership with expert innovators and health care leaders, The John A.

Hartford Foundation is working to create health systems that are age-friendly and better able to meet the goals of the Triple Aim . In addition to our signature Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative (see below), we have multiple programs that are helping health systems become more age-friendly. View our list of grants and our Resource Center to learn more.

Our grantmaking in this area will: Develop large-scale approaches that help health systems transform care; Operationalize the essential elements of good care, building on the Foundation’s investments in evidence-based models and best practices; and Better integrate community-based supports and services within the health system and across the continuum of care.

View Age-Friendly Health Systems Grants Age-Friendly Health Systems Initiative A movement to help spread the reliable delivery of age-friendly care - based on the 4Ms framework (what Matters, Medication, Mentation, Mobility) - to all health care settings. Age-Friendly Care and the 4Ms Older adults and family caregivers can learn more about what age-friendly care is and how they can ask for it from their health care providers.

The page is available in Spanish as well. Building an Age-Friendly Ecosystem We are working with partners from across the Age-Friendly Ecosystem to elevate all things age-friendly and jumpstart the co-creation of shared strategies that increase our collective impact.

Patient Priorities Care: Microskills Training Program with the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Age-Friendly Health Systems, NEJM Catalyst Call for Papers: Assessing Implementation and Impact of the 4Ms Framework to Advance Age-Friendly Health Systems - Special Theme Issue Age-Friendly Health Systems, Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition Conversation: Strengthening Nursing Home Leadership - Lessons from Moving Forward Michigan Age-Friendly Health Systems, 13 Journalists Selected for GSA Journalists in Aging Fellows Program Age-Friendly Health Systems, The John A.

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