IHI Blog: Are You Missing Opportunities to Improve Care for Older Adults?
"Are You Missing Opportunities to Improve Care for Older Adults?," posted by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), discusses that even though we know what care to provide for older adults, we meet less than 10% of the total need in our country with the best evidence-based models of care available.
That is why "The John A. Hartford Foundation and IHI invited leading researchers, physicians, and health systems to develop the [Age-Friendly Health Systems] model to reliably provide the best care possible for older adults every day and everywhere they encounter the health care system."
The blog lays out the four key interventions of the initiative essential to creating an age-friendly system of care, and includes a self-assessment tool that your organization can use to assess whether it is using age-friendly systems of care.
To read the blog, click here.
To learn more about the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, click here.