AHA's HRET Releases Issue Brief on Age-Friendly Health Systems
The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), an affiliate of the American Hospital Association (AHA), has released an issue brief, "Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems."
The issue brief provides an overview of what an age-friendly health system means, why it is important now and how health systems can address the unique needs of older adults using a new practice model developed in partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA), with support and leadership from The John A. Hartford Foundation.
"The new paradigm for an age-friendly health system is based on patients’ goals and values, as well as improved outcomes and lower costs of care within the walls of the hospital and beyond. This new environment of care, in which health systems assume more risk and potentially share in cost savings, will spur those systems to develop better coordination and integration of care across the continuum."
"We’re recruiting hospitals and health systems to join us in deploying the new 4M model. And we’re encouraging all health systems to embrace age-friendly care."
To read the issue brief, click here.
To read the one-pager, click here.
To go to the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, click here.