IHI Insights Article & Related Toolkit: Aligning the Health Care and Public Health Sectors to Improve Age-Friendly Care Coordination
The Institute for Healthcare (IHI) has released an Insights article and toolkit on, "Aligning the Health Care and Public Health Sectors to Improve Age-Friendly Care Coordination," that describes a cross-sector partnership between the public health and health care sectors.
The article notes how the pandemic highlighted the need to collaborate with others to bring the age-friendly approach to public health efforts. It talks about IHI's partnership, starting in 2021, with Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Michigan Health and Hospital Association (MHA) to align Age-Friendly Health Systems with Age-Friendly public health systems.
Together, the three organizations have developed the Three Keys to Cross-Sector Age-Friendly Care framework that includes an implementation guide, workbook, driver diagram (including measures and changes ideas), and care journey maps. An article published recently in Social Innovations Journal describes this cross-sector collaboration and its results.
Read the IHI article.
Go to the Three Keys to Cross-Sector Age-Friendly Care toolkit.
Go to the Social Innovations Journal abstract.
Go to the Social Innovations Journal PDF.
Learn more about the Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) initiative.
Go to IHI's Insights series.
Learn more about JAHF's co-funding of the AFHS initiative.
