Foundation approves $11.4 million in grants to improve senior care

NEW YORK – The board of trustees for the John A. Hartford Foundation has approved six new grants totaling more than $11.4 million to advance age-friendly approaches across health care and public health nationwide. The approved grants are:

• Age-friendly public health systems: Transforming public health aging policy and practice through leadership and systems change, phase IV ($2,741,494 for three years), Trust for America’s Health
• Optimizing 4Ms implementation and evaluation in convenience and primary care ($2,572,862 for three years), Case Western Reserve University
• Scaling and sustaining hospital at home in the US: Payment, caregivers, workforce and data ($2,295,062 for three years), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• A national initiative to spread, scale and sustain price-informed share decision-making and health care engagement tools for older adults and family caregivers, phase III ($1,958,670 for three years), FAIR Health
• A conversational artificial intelligence platform for age-friendly care in Medicare Managed Care ($1,358,369 for 18 months), University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• Core support renewal: Building an aging philanthropy movement ($489,940 for three years), Grantmakers in Aging

FMI on the grants go here. The foundation is a private, nonpartisan, national philanthropy organization dedicated to improving the care of older adults. It has three priority areas: creating age-friendly health systems, supporting family caregivers and improving serious illness and end-of-life care. Since 1982, it has awarded more than $758 million in grants.