IHI Blog: How Even the Best Geriatric Care Can Get Better
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has published a blog, "How Even the Best Geriatric Care Can Get Better."
Authored by Kedar Mate, CEO and President of IHI, the blog opens by discussing the founding of the Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) initiative in 2017, and it explains the core of the AFHS initiative, the 4Ms: What Matters, Meditation, Mentation and Mobility.
Dr. Mate discusses how many health systems, such as the Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) program, were already providing high-quality care for older adults before the AFHS movement but still found benefit in implementing the 4Ms. He found that when health systems applied the 4Ms, "they saw significant reductions in length of stay compared to their baseline. They also reduced their total cost of care, on average by over $30,000 per patient." The blog expands on the benefits the 4Ms and references a recent study, "Evidence for the 4Ms: Interactions and Outcomes across the Care Continuum," published in the Journal of Aging and Health.
To read the blog, click here.
The blog also contains a video from Kedar Mate titled, "The Most Challenging Part of Providing Age-Friendly Care." To view the video, click here.
To learn more about the AFHS initiative, click here.
To learn more about JAHF's support of the AFHS initiative, click here.
