Health Services Research Publishes Age-Friendly Health Systems Special Issue
Health Services Research (HSR) has published a Special Issue on Age-Friendly Health Systems.
The goal of this Special Issue is to highlight cutting-edge work that showcases the potential to learn from those involved in understanding, designing, implementing and studying age-friendly programs and policies. The Special Issue was released February 1, 2023 and is a partnership between Health Services Research and The John A. Hartford Foundation.
The papers in this Age-Friendly Health Systems series are:
Commentary from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA):
Research Articles related to VHA settings:
- Provider Discussion of Health Goals and Psychosocial Needs: Comparing Older to Younger Veteran Experience
- Telehealth for Geriatric Post-Emergency Department Visits to Promote Age-Friendly Care
- Perceived Benefits of Geriatric Specialty Telemedicine among Rural Patients and Caregivers Research
Commentaries:
- Applying the Age-Friendly Health System 4M Paradigm to Reframe Climate-Related Disaster Preparedness for Nursing Home Populations
- An Age-Friendly Population Health Dashboard Geolocating by Clinical and Social Determinant Needs
- Effects of an Electronic Health Record-based Mobility Assessment and Automated Referral for Inpatient Physical Therapy on Patient Outcomes: A Quasi-experimental Study
- Impact of a Collaboration Revolving Around Virtual Capacity Evaluations
- Unmet Needs for Food, Medicine, and Mental Health Services Among Vulnerable Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Collaborating toward Equity in Pennsylvania: The Age-Friendly Care, PA Project
- Achievement of Age-Friendly Health Systems Committed to Care Excellence Designation in a Convenient Care Health Care System
- Geriatric Fracture Program Centering Age-Friendly Care Associated with Lower Length of Stay and Lower Direct Costs
- The Effect of the Right Care, Right Place, Right Time (R3) Initiative on Medicare Health Service Use Among Older Affordable Housing Residents
- How “Age-Friendly” are Deprescribing Interventions? A Scoping Review of Deprescribing Trials
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