Invitation to Join: Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is inviting health systems to join the next Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community spring 2023.
Becoming an Age-Friendly Health System entails reliably providing a set of four evidence-based elements of high-quality care, known as the “4Ms” — What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility, to all older adults in your system. The 4Ms make care of older adults that can be complex, more manageable.
An Action Community is a network of teams from across different health systems who come together to accelerate their own adoption of the 4Ms. Guided by expert faculty and an “all teach all learn model,” teams participate on monthly webinars, attend convening, and test specific changes to improve care for older adults. The Action Community is designed as an on-ramp for hospital-based teams (e.g., emergency departments, intensive care units, general wards, medical-surgical units), ambulatory care teams (e.g., primary care, specialty care), and nursing home teams (e.g., post-acute and long-term care) to test and adopt age-friendly care.
During the 7-month virtual learning community, a team will test the 4Ms framework at their site of care (e.g., a hospital unit, primary care practice, nursing home) with the goal of being recognized as an Age-Friendly Health System – Committed to Care Excellence. New and previously engaged health systems are welcome to join. Previously engaged health systems often join another Action Community to support their efforts to spread age-friendly care to additional care locations in their system.
Watch an informational webinar held on February 10 about the upcoming Action Community
Age-Friendly Health Systems is an initiative of JAHF and IHI in partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA).
Join IHI's Action Community (extended deadline April 27, click on the registration link on the right).
Learn more about the upcoming Action Community.
Learn more about joining the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement.
Go to IHI's Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative website.
Learn about JAHF's support of the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative.
