Book: Age-Friendly Health Systems - A Guide to Using the 4Ms While Caring for Older Adults

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The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) have released a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide for healthcare professionals, "Age-Friendly Health Systems: A Guide to Using the 4Ms While Caring for Older Adults."

Co-edited by JAHF President, Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, and IHI Vice President, Leslie Pelton, MPA, this new resource is a compilation of what we have learned so far about reliably delivering age-friendly care to older adults in all settings based on the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative 4Ms framework: what Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility.

The book is available on Amazon.com.

Age-Friendly Health Systems is an initiative of JAHF and IHI in partnership with the American Hospital Association and the​ Catholic Health Association of the United States. The movement is helping hospitals, medical practices, retail pharmacy clinics, nursing homes, home-care providers and others to deliver age-friendly care through the 4Ms essential set of evidence-based practices.

The book tells the success story of the initiative spreading to over 2,500 health systems and contains several valuable guides, as well as useful tools and charts that can be adopted by health care systems.

To order the book, click here.
To learn more about the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, click here.
To read an issue brief about the book, click here.
To learn more about JAHF's support of the initiative, click here.