IHI Blog: How to Limit the Exposure of Older Adults to COVID-19 and Provide Age-Friendly Care
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has released a blog, “How to Limit the Exposure of Older Adults to COVID-19 and Provide Age-Friendly Care.”
It is important to limit exposure of older adults to COVID-19 while simultaneously providing healthcare when needed, the blog notes. To help health care professionals, IHI's Age-Friendly Health Systems experts have developed guidance to help limit the exposure of older adults to COVID-19.
Recommendations are given on how to limit the spread of COVID-19 and provide age-friendly care. These recommendations are grouped in four goal settings: in the community, in the emergency department, in the hospital, and in post-acute and long-term care, with the overall aim being to, "Limit exposure of older adults to COVID-19 by reducing their need to present to the hospital, reducing hospitalizations and, if hospitalized or in post-acute or long-term care community, increase the rate of safe discharges."
To read the blog click here.
To go to the full document, Age-Friendly Health Systems Design to Address COVID-19, for more detailed guidance, click here.
To go to a range of COVID-19 resources for caring for older adults assembled by the Age-Friendly Health Systems team, click here.
To learn more about the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, click here.