IHI Course: Providing Age-Friendly Care to Older Adults
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has created a free Open School course, "Providing Age-Friendly Care to Older Adults."
Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS), an initiative of JAHF and IHI in partnership with the American Hospital Association and the Catholic Health Association of the United States, aims to help hospitals, medical practices, retail pharmacy clinics, nursing homes, home-care providers and others deliver age-friendly care.
This course (PFC 203) will teach participants how to provide age-friendly care based on a set of four evidence-based elements, known as the “4Ms”. When implemented together, the 4Ms represent a broad shift by health systems to focus on the needs of older adults.
The course objectives are to:
- Define age-friendly care
- Describe the 4Ms framework, which presents four evidence-based elements of high-quality care for older adults
- Explain how you will assess the current state of the 4Ms in your health system and how to act on those findings to incorporate the 4Ms into routine care
- List six steps you will take to integrate the 4Ms into standard care for older adults
To register for this course follow this link, click on "Earn Your Certificate Today," create an account, and then search for course "PFC 203." You must create an account on IHI's website to accent the course.
To learn more about the course continuing education credits, click here.
To learn more about the AFHS initiative, click here.
To learn more about JAHF's support of the AFHS initiative, click here.
