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Judith Graham: Good early morning, everybody. Thank you for joining us today. I’m Judy Graham, and I compose the “Navigating Aging” column for Kaiser Health News, really referred to as KFF Health News. I’m likewise the mediator for today’s occasion. We’re all in for reward: a discussion with 5 exceptional older grownups about their lives and their experiences.
A couple of words of intro. As a lot of you understand, KFF is an independent company that concentrates on health policy research study, ballot, and news. It sponsors KFF Health News and partners with media companies throughout the nation. The Washington Post has actually been our partner for the series that is the topic of this webinar, “Going It Alone.” KFF Health News is dedicated to covering the best group pattern of our time: the amazing development of the older population, now 60 million strong. And I’ve been fortunate to be a part of that. For several years, The John A. Hartford Foundation, the co-sponsor of this occasion, has actually supported our aging protection. I’ll let Rani Snyder, who manages the Hartford Foundation’s grant-making to enhance the care of older grownups, inform you more. Rani, onto you.
Rani Snyder: Thank you a lot, Judy. It’s terrific to be here. And thank you, particularly Judy, for all of the work that you provide for the “Navigating Aging” column, which is simply great. Our structure, The John A. Hartford Foundation, is truly happy to support today’s occasion and KFF Health News and all that you do. I am Rani Snyder. I’m the vice president of program at The John A. Hartford Foundation. Our structure is a nonpartisan nationwide philanthropy with the objective to enhance the care of older grownups. We occur to live in New York City, however we run all throughout the nation. And we operate in 3 various locations: developing age-friendly health systems, supporting household caretakers, and enhancing major health problem and end-of-life care. And I actually wish to invite our whole audience to today’s conversation about living alone while aging. Our structure invests quite greatly in supporting household caretakers or older grownups who are the foundation of care in this nation.
And we likewise acknowledge, and much more so now, thanks to Judy’s exceptional reporting, that countless individuals do not have a member of the family or a buddy who are helping them as they age and might possibly require care. Our structure is working to make sure that all older grownups, no matter where they live, no matter their background, no matter their household scenarios, have access to top quality, age-friendly care that’s focused on what matters to all of us as we get older. By moneying programs that link health systems, public health, and community-based services, and likewise by engaging when we can with policymakers and the public, our strategy is to produce systems of assistance and neighborhoods of connection that assist individuals to age well as they’re aging alone.
