Healthcare Executive: Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems
A paper, "Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems," published by Healthcare Executive online and forthcoming in the November/ December print issue, is co-authored by Leslie Pelton, MPA, and Kedar Mate, MD, both at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, at The John A. Hartford Foundation, and Ann L. Hendrich, PhD, RN, FAAN, at Ascension.
This article describes an emerging care model for older adults focused on the “4Ms” of age-friendly health systems — What Matters, Mobility, Medications, and the Mentation of older adults — that is in the testing phase at five U.S. health systems, as part of the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative.
The age-friendly health systems model provides healthcare leaders with a blueprint to allocate existing resources to care practices that are evidence-based, impactful and simple enough to be spread reliably across the continuum of care with the goal of better serving the needs of older adults.
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