019 – Interview: How Foundations Are Improving Health & Aging

In This Episode:

Dr. K talks with Chris Langston, PhD, former Program Director at the John A. Hartford Foundation and an expert on leveraging philanthropy to improve the health and healthcare of older Americans. They discuss:

• How charitable foundations influence geriatrics research and education
• The Hartford Foundation’s work assessing quality of care for older adults, and how older adults perceive that care
• How the Hartford Foundation helped develop a “collaborative care” model for better treatment of depression in older adults
• Why redesigning the way the average doctor works may be more important than providing more opportunities for doctors to acquire geriatrics knowledge
• The benefits of “Acute Care for Elders” (ACE) units
• How the evolution of geriatrics might be similar to — and different from — pediatrics
• How society views aging and how we might tackle ageism

Related Resources:

• The John A. Hartford Foundation
• How Does It Feel? The Older Adult Health Care Experience
• When It Comes to Geriatrics Expertise, If You Can’t Change the Numbers, Change the Game
• Expensive Tests to Evaluate Syncope Don’t Yield as Much as Simple Postural BP
• If ACE (Acute Care for Elders) Units Are So Great, Why Aren’t They Everywhere?
• Frameworks Institute: Reframing Aging