McKnights: Senior Living Communities Help Develop Age-Friendly Health Systems
McKnight's Senior Living has published an article, "Senior Living Communities Help Develop Age-Friendly Health Systems."
The article details the four high-level interventions, the "4Ms" of the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative. Interventions that initiative participants are doing are described.
Trinity Health Senior Communities' Glacier Hills "piloted how to address the “what matters” and “mobility” aspects in independent and assisted living and worked on mentation and medications in skilled nursing, Dr. Huckins said....The project “turned out to be extremely satisfying for the caregivers, for the staff and for the residents,”....Now in Glacier Hills, based on what they learned, she said, “Anybody admitted into the assisted living or independent living area, on their initial admission, gets a question by the admitting nurse about what matters to them. What's important in their life?""
To read the article, click here.
To learn more about the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, click here.
