The John A. Hartford Foundation has announced four grants totaling $3.4 million to improve care for older adults.

The grants will spread age-friendly care through consulting pharmacists to accelerate the adoption of evidence-based comprehensive dementia care programs, help family caregivers of people living with dementia find support programs, and disseminate resources to improve care for people with complex health and social needs.

Recipients include the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, which was awarded a three-year, $1.8 million grant to help older adults and their caregivers navigate the complexities of managing medications; the Education Development Center, which will receive an 18 month, $900,000 grant to coordinate with the developers of six evidence-based comprehensive dementia care programs to rapidly respond to increasing demands for dementia services and a new payment model launched by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center; the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging, which was awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant to disseminate and sustain the public version of Best Practice Caregiving, an online resource to be launched in January 2024; and Center for Health Care Strategies, which will receive a two-year, $200,000 grant.

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