Friday, June 12, 2015
John A. Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes
The Y has received a two-year, $860,500 grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to deliver the YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program to older adults. The program applies research that has been shown to reduce the number of new type 2 diabetes cases among Medicare-age individuals by nearly 70 percent, also offering the possibility for lowering health care expenditures.
With funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Y will spread the YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program to 57 local Y associations and enhance the capacity of 173 local Y associations, to reach a total of least 1,124 of each Y's program sites and at least 31,500 adults over the age of 55. Over the two-year grant period, the Y will also work to provide diabetes prevention services to more older adults by advancing policy changes such as Medicare reimbursement for diabetes prevention programs....