Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety Commentary: Advancing Parkinson’s Care and Patient Safety Through CMS’s Age-Friendly Hospital Measure
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety has published a paper, "Advancing Parkinson’s Care and Patient Safety Through CMS’s Age-Friendly Hospital Measure."
The article provides a practical pathway to operationalize the CMS’s Age-Friendly Hospital Measure, translating a nationally recognized, widely adopted framework for older adults into disease-specific action that reduces preventable harm for a high-risk population—those living with Parkinson’s disease (PD). PD is the second-most common neurodegenerative disease in the U.S.
Effective January 1, 2025, CMS’s Age- Friendly Hospital Measure requires hospitals participating in Medicare’s Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program to attest to having processes that comply with the Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) 4Ms Framework (What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility). The authors summarize tactical recommendations for ensuring age-friendly processes protect PD patients across each of the new hospital measure’s attestation domains, including:
- Eliciting Patient Healthcare Goals (What Matters to PD Patients)
- Responsible Medication Management
- Frailty Screening and Intervention
- Social Vulnerability, and
- Age-Friendly Care Leadership
Read the full paper.
Read the press release.
Learn more about the AFHS initiative.
Learn more about the Parkinson’s Foundation Hospital Care Recommendations.
Learn more about the Parkinson Foundation's Hospital Care Initiative.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of the AFHS initiative.
