AHA Article: Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems - An Innovative Model Addresses the Unique Care Needs of Older Adults
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has published an article, “Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems - An Innovative Model Addresses the Unique Care Needs of Older Adults."
Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) is an initiative of The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in partnership with the American Hospital Association and the Catholic Health Association of the United States. The initiative is designed to meet the needs of older adults, looking beyond acute events, engaging the whole community and achieving better health for older adults. The article describes the AFHS initiative '4Ms' model and details 4M action steps, gives examples of the 4M model in the field, and discusses a case study of a health system that joined the AFHS initiative.
The article also provides information on how Trustees can get involved in the AFHS initiative, talks about the recent AHA AFHS Action Community, and how health systems can join the initiative. The AHA will be hosting another Age-Friendly Health Systems action community in fall 2020.
To go to the article, click here.
To go to AHA's AFHS page, click here.
