Hartford Change AGEnts
Action Awards
2014 Request for Applications
A Technical Assistance Webinar
May 20, 2014
John Beilenson
President
SCP
Wayne, PA
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AGEnda
• About the Hartford Change AGEnts
Initiative
• What is Practice Change?
• Action Awards Details
• Your Questions
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Today’s Panel
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Laura Gitlin, PhD
Co-Leader, Hartford Change AGEnts Initiative
Director, Center for Innovative Care in Aging
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Baltimore, MD
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Julia Meashey, MA
Director of Operations, Hartford Change AGEnts Initiative
The Gerontological Society of America
Washington, DC
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About the Hartford Change
AGEnts Initiative
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What is Practice
Change?
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What is Practice Change?
• A complex, collaborative and generally trans-disciplinary
process that uses the best available evidence to improve
health care and health—in the case of the Hartford Change
AGEnts Initiative, the health care and health of older adults
and their families.
• Practice change engages older adults and families themselves
and/or other stakeholders in the design and implementation
of interventions, programs, services, practices and
innovations.
• Changes in practice are needed in every setting across the
continuum of care (from clinic to hospital to skilled nursing
and other long term care environments), as well as in the
community and home.
Attributes of practice change
that application should reflect:
 Embed value-added interprofessional collaboration and
team care
 Coordinate organizational partnerships across settings and
with community-based organizations
 Are informed by evidence
 Reflect geriatric and gerontological excellence and best
practice
 Advance person- and family-centered care
 Promote equity and access
Six Domains of Practice Change
① Transforming practice, care and services
Adopting new models, measures, or improvements
in the work of clinical units, clinics, care settings,
social agencies or communities.
② Redesigning delivery systems
Making systemic improvements in care within and
across organizations or networks.
③ Advancing public policy
Conducting advocacy, seeking regulatory and
reimbursement change, or doing research that
informs policy making at the federal, state, regional
or local level.
Six Domains of Practice Change
④ Connecting health professions education to
practice
Reshaping pre- and post-degree education programs to
include interprofessional, team, and collaborative
concepts/approaches critical to providing better care.
⑤ Crafting quality measures and tools
Generating or advancing the use of tools and measures
to enhance care.
⑥ Developing model programs
Creating and testing new care models, interventions,
and/or strategies designed to improve care and health.
Action Awards
Details
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Purpose of Action Awards
• To achieve meaningful change to practice
or policy that improves the health and
wellbeing of older adults and/or their
families.
• To foster collaborative and
interprofessional efforts to change practice
using best evidence.
Requirements
 Up to $10,000 for one year
 Involvement of an interprofessional team and proposed
adopter organization(s) or stakeholder(s)
 Lead applicant must be affiliated (past or present) with a
program of the John A. Hartford Foundation (Visit
www.changeagents365.org for a list of Hartford programs)
 Two or three letters of support addressing commitment of
key organizations and individuals to proposed practice
change and their contributions
Application Components
• Cover sheet
• Proposal narrative (up to 8 pages, double spaced, Arial 12-point, 1inch margins)
– Significance (Why proposed change is needed and potential
impact)
– Goals (Specific goals, objectives or aims of one year project)
– Readiness (why is this the right time; alignment of change with
goals of targeted setting)
– Implementation plan (proposed activities, team)
– Evaluation (How will accomplishments be assessed)
– Potential for sustainability and next steps
– Deliverables and dissemination (final products, opportunities)
– Possible barriers and facilitators
• Letters of support
• Budget/budget narrative
How to Apply
• Visit www.changeagents365.org for more detailed
information.
• Submit documents by 5pm ET on Tuesday,
June 10th:
Application Cover Sheets
Proposal Narrative
Letters of Support
Budget/Budget Narrative
Submit your entire application in one single PDF
file by email (changeagents365@geron.org)
Time Line
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DUE DATE
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NOTIFICATION OF AWARD
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START DATE OF AWARD
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6-MONTH CONFERENCE CALL WITH AWARDEES
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END DATE OF AWARD
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FINAL REPORT
 June 10, 2014 by 5pm EDT
 July 15, 2014
 August 1, 2014
 January 2015
 July 31, 2015
 October 1, 2015 - Awardees will submit a final narrative and financial
report
Questions
For More Help
Write to:
Changeagents365@geron.org
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