IHI Blog: What Your Training May Not Have Taught You About Caring for Older Adults
IHI Blog: What Your Training May Not Have Taught You About Caring for Older Adults
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has published a blog, "What Your Training May Not Have Taught You About Caring for Older Adults."
In the blog, Dr. Stephanie Rogers, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Division of Geriatrics, answers questions about what many clinicians miss when addressing delirium in older adults. "Providing age-friendly care means thinking about a person in the context of their community and their goals and their family and providing medical care that meets those goals."
Dr. Rogers explains what clinicians often misunderstand about caring for older adults, describes delirium in the context of the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative "4Ms" framework, and talks about what she has learned from individual patients.
To read the blog, click here.
To learn more about the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, click here.
