Age-Friendly Health Systems: Guide to Recognition for Geriatric Emergency Department Accredited Sites
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has released a guide, "Age-Friendly Health Systems: Guide to Recognition for Geriatric Emergency Department Accredited Sites."
To address the complex care of older adults and the higher rates that older adults visit emergency departments (EDs), two important initiatives were launched to support the provision of age-friendly care. The first initiative was Age-Friendly Health Systems and it laid out a vision to build a social movement so that all care with older adults is age-friendly care. The second initiative was ACEP Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation, a program that recognizes emergency departments (EDs) that provide excellent care of older adults.
Following the rapid and continued adoption of these two frameworks across the United States, there is an opportunity to help health systems to leverage each for improved care of older adults. This guide provides easy next steps for organizations that have been accredited as geriatric EDs to achieve Age-Friendly Health Systems recognition.
Read the guide.
Learn more about Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) initiative.
Learn more about JAHF's co-funding of the AFHS initiative.
Learn more about JAHF's co-funding of the Geriatric ED Program.
