Launching and Empowering a National Age-Friendly Health Systems Research Community

Grant Summary

This project will expand the evidence on the equitable implementation, scale-up and impact of the Age-Friendly Health Systems 4Ms Framework (What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility) via three complementary sets of activities. First, it will design and launch an Age-Friendly Health Systems Research Council and national Research Network. Second, it will collaborate with three to five Age-Friendly Health Systems sites to co-develop scalable resources that enable evaluation of the 4Ms. Third, it will partner with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and 10 health systems to qualitatively understand how to achieve equitable, reliable practice of the 4Ms at enterprise scale. This project follows prior research by the University of California, San Francisco to qualitatively assess the implementation and scaling of the 4Ms across three health systems and quantitatively analyze delivery of 4Ms care for more than 19,000 older adults at UCSF.

Related Grant Resources

• Age Friendly Health Systems Research Network
• UCSF Report: Advancing Age-Friendly Care - An Assessment of the CMS Inpatient Quality Reporting Age-Friendly Hospital Measure
• INQUIRY Paper: Assessing Equitable Adherence to the Age-Friendly Health System’s 4Ms Framework in an Academic Inpatient Setting
• JAGS Paper: Developing Electronic Health Record-based Measures of the 4Ms to Support Implementation and Evidence Generation for Age-Friendly Health Systems
• Previous Grant: Implementation, Scaling and Impact of the 4Ms in an IT-enabled Health Care System