Council of Medical Specialty Societies Announces Awards to Advance Age-Friendly Care in Specialty Ambulatory Settings
The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) has awarded grants to six specialty societies to advance age-friendly care in outpatient specialty and subspecialty medicine.
The funding will support societies’ efforts to develop targeted resources and promote adoption of the Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) 4Ms Framework—What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility—into routine outpatient practice.
The societies, partnering with approximately 40 specialty practices, will develop 4Ms implementation guidance for their specialties on AFHS for clinician training, education and practice. CMSS will serve as a coordinating center to monitor and promote cross-specialty learning, improvement, and collaboration.
Grant recipients:
- American Academy of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Empowering Patients Through Age-Friendly ENT: Implementation of the 4Ms Framework
- American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Incorporating Age-Friendly Approaches into Rheumatology Care
- American College of Surgeons (ACS) Integrating the Age-Friendly 4Ms into Ambulatory Surgery
- American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Bridging Guidelines to Practice: An Age-Friendly Learning Collaborative for Geriatric Oncology
- American Urological Association (AUA) Expanding Age-Friendly Approaches to Urology Care
- Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Implementation of the Evidence-Based 4Ms Framework in Vascular Ambulatory Care
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Learn more about the awards.
Visit the CMSS website.
Learn more about the AFHS initiative.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of CMSS.
