JAGS Paper: Connected Care for Older Adults - A Pilot Intervention Engaging Community Health Workers to Advance Age‐Friendly Care in Rural Oregon
The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has published a paper, "Connected Care for Older Adults: A Pilot Intervention Engaging Community Health Workers to Advance Age‐Friendly Care in Rural Oregon."
Community Health Workers (CHWs) can play an important role in delivering age-friendly care to rural older adults through health education, advocacy, outreach, care coordination, and system navigation support.
The Connected Care Pilot Intervention engages CHWs to implement role-appropriate protocols in the homes of older adults to assist primary care teams in optimizing goal-aligned care, safer medication management, identification of depression and dementia, and enhanced mobility (the 4Ms of Age-Friendly Care). Early outcomes of this pilot demonstrate the feasibility and potential impact of adding high value care for rural older adults via training and outreach by CHWs utilizing standardized 4M protocols.
Read the paper.
Go to the JAGS issue.
Learn more about the National Rural Age-Friendly Initiative.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) and the AFHS initiative.
