CHA Article: New Standards for Age-Friendly Surgical Care
The journal of The Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA), Health Progress, has published an article, "Age Friendly - New Standards for Age-Friendly Surgical Care," as part of it's winter 2021 issue on Aging and Long-term Care.
The article explains what the Geriatric Surgery Verification Program (GSV) is and talks about how America's aging population provides an opportunity to implement the GSV throughout health systems across the country.
"The Geriatric Surgery Verification Program is centered on four main aspects of geriatric surgical care: goals and decision making; cognition and preventing postoperative delirium; maintaining function and mobility; and optimizing nutrition and hydration. These four areas pre-date but overlap extensively with the framework of the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative." Among the article's authors is JAHF's VP of Communications and Senior Program Officer Marcus Escobedo.
Age-Friendly Health Systems is an initiative of JAHF and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in partnership with American Hospital Association and CHA.
To read the article, click here.
To go to the winter 2021 issue, click here.
To learn more about the GSV program, click here.
To learn about JAHF's support of the GSV, click here.
