New Age-Friendly Resource: Improving Public Health and Health Care for Older Adults
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has released, "Improving Public Health and Health Care for Older Adults: The Three Keys to Cross-Sector Age-Friendly Work Implementation Guide and Workbook," developed in collaboration with the Michigan Health & Hospital Association and Trust for America’s Health with support from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund.
This set of materials contains resources designed to improve how public health and health care organizations work across the care continuum:
- Implementation Guide: Leverages cross-sector collaboration as a vital tool to bring together public health and health care organizations and other partners outside of these sectors across the care continuum. Some components of the framework presented in this guide may apply within one sector only, while others apply across multiple sectors, including health care, public health, and social services.
- Workbook: Takes organizations through how to test the change ideas, step by step.
- Care Journey Maps: Visual narratives depicting the multidimensional relationship between an individual and a service.
- Driver Diagram, Change Ideas, and Measures
The model, originally developed through a pilot project in Michigan, is intended to be adaptable to any community or state and can be customized based on the older adults within a geographic area.
This cross-sector work builds on the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement and the Age-Friendly Public Health Systems initiative.
Free IHI registration is required to download materials.
Learn more about the Improving Public Health and Health Care for Older Adults resources.
Go to IHI's list of Age-Friendly Health Systems resources.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of IHI.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of Age-Friendly Public Health Systems.