AHA-HRET: Making Care Better and Friendlier for Older Adults
The American Hospital Association's (AHA) Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) Vice President, Clinical Quality, Marie Cleary-Fishman, has written an article on AHA Insights and Analysis, "Making Care Better and Friendlier for Older Adults."
Talking from her personal experience with her family, Ms. Cleary-Fishman writes, "To address these kinds of challenges for our families and to improve health care for all older adults, a team of us at the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) joined the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative to design a new model of care focused on what we refer to as the “4 Ms”: what matters to patients, medications, mentation and mobility. The John A. Hartford Foundation, which has worked to enhance the health and well-being of older people for more than 35 years, is providing support and leadership. In addition, by partnering with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Catholic Health Association of the United States on this social movement, AHA aims to replicate these change approaches to 1,000 care settings, including hospitals, ambulatory care, long-term care and post-acute care, by 2020."
"AHA-HRET and our partners would like you to join us in making health care better and friendlier for all older adults. Visit www.aha.org/agefriendly or email AFHS@aha.org to learn more."
To read the article, click here.
To go to AHA's issue brief on creating age-friendly health systems, click here.
To learn more about the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, click here.