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July 1, 2002 | Program Result
Starting in 1996, this project supported the expansion of the Family Friends program, which matched older volunteers with children who have severe disabilities or chronic illness and with their families.
July 1, 2002 | Program Result
The Emmaus Services for the Aging, in Washington, revitalized its programming and adding more volunteers and services.
July 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Oregon Pacific Research Institute evaluated and enhanced the ongoing support patients need to manage a broad spectrum of chronic diseases, which affect more than 100 million Americans.
January 1, 1997 | Book
This Anthology chapter presents findings from the Foundation's attempt to learn more about chronically ill people and the service arrangements for them. The study focuses on a single community, Springfield, Mass.
March 1, 2007 | Program Result
The National Minority Health Month Foundation created a minority health status database and used it to determine whether different outcomes were related to minority versus non-minority ZIP codes.
December 8, 2011 | Program Result
Community Partnerships for Older Adults (CPFOA) aimed to improve long-term care and supportive systems for vulnerable older adults by fostering collaborative partnerships and building community capacity.
April 12, 2011 | Report
Chronicallyill Medicare patients spent fewer days in the hospital and received more hospice care in 2007 than they did in 2003, but at the same time there was an increase in the intensity of care for patients who were hospitalized, according to a Dartmouth Atlas Project report.
National Program
To foster the efforts of local public-private partnerships to improve long-term care and supportive services systems for older adults.
National Program
To support community-based coalitions aimed at improving efforts to control pediatric asthma.
August 27, 2011 | Journal Article
The chief scientific adviser to the United Kingdom Government, Foresight Programme, describes how the Lancet series addresses the complexity of obesity, a wide-ranging threat to public health.