Age-Friendly Health Systems: Guide to Using the 4Ms in the Care of Older Adults in the Convenient Care Clinic
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has released a guide, "Age-Friendly Health Systems: Guide to Using the 4Ms in the Care of Older Adults in the Convenient Care Clinic."
MinuteClinic and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) France Payne Bolton School of Nursing formed an academic–practice partnership, in collaboration with IHI and funded by JAHF, to “think big” and use implementation and improvement science to launch the 4Ms Framework of an Age-Friendly Health System on a national scale at MinuteClinic’s more than 1,100 clinics. The academic–practice partnership was formed to enhance the existing quality structure by incorporating improvement and implementation science methods to ensure that all older adults visiting a MinuteClinic for an eligible visit (excluding visits for vaccines or other express services) would reliably receive age-friendly 4Ms care.
The guide contains resources to help convenient care clinics implement the 4Ms into their setting of care. It provides checklists of action items to meet each M of the 4Ms model and associated guides for workflow implementation.
Read the guide.
Learn more about the academic-practice partnership.
Learn more about Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative.
Go to more IHI resources on supporting 4Ms in different care settings.
Learn more about JAHF's co-funding of CWRU and of IHI.
