IHI Webinar Recording: COVID-19 - Age-Friendly Care During a Pandemic
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) held a webinar on June 12, "COVID-19: Age-Friendly Care During a Pandemic," as part of IHI's special weekly COVID-19 webinar series.
As COVID-19 began to spread across the U.S. in March, there was legitimate worry about the particular vulnerability of elderly adults. The high percentage of residents of nursing homes who have died from the virus, along with activities to address a myriad of factors that allowed the virus to spread in long-term care facilities continues to generate the most concern. Through it all, there have also been concerns that best practices for engaging with older patients across the health care system, with or without infection, were going to be shoved aside. Just the opposite happened in a lot of places, including health systems who work with IHI and partners to improve their support for and treatment of older adults.
The webinar discussed Age-Friendly Care during a pandemic. Much of the conversation focused on the ways in which the Age-Friendly Health Systems '4Ms' Framework - What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility - can be adapted and offer critical guidance during a crisis. Speakers included:
- Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, IHI
- Derek Feeley, President and CEO, IHI
- Mary Tinetti, MD, Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Public Health, Chief of Geriatrics, Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital
- Deborah Marks Conley, MSN, APRN-CNS, GCNS-BC, Service Executive and Gerontological Clinical Nurse Specialist, Methodist Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska
- Mark A. Supiano, MD, AGSF, Professor and Chief of the Geriatrics Division, University of Utah School of Medicine
- Madge Kaplan, Director of Communications, IHI: moderator
To watch the webinar recording, click here.
To learn more about the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, click here.
