Nursing Clinics of North America Paper: Age-Friendly Nursing Homes - Opportunity for Nurses to Lead
Nursing Clinics of North America has published a paper on "Age-Friendly Nursing Homes: Opportunity for Nurses to Lead."
Nursing homes and other settings are often left out of local, state, or federal strategic plans on aging. In addition, limited quality and quantity of nursing home staff impact new program implementation. The authors, from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and JAHF, consider how programs and services to support older adults can create and sustain an Age-Friendly Ecosystem, including a meaningful role for nursing homes.
The paper focuses on how nursing homes are essential to the spread of Age-Friendly Health Systems and explains how nursing homes are measuring age-friendly nursing home care. It details the 2020 IHI initiative that JAHF funded to incorporate the 4Ms of Age-Friendly Health Systems (what Matters, Medication, Mentation, Mobility) into nursing homes' daily 20 minute huddles during the pandemic. The paper also discusses incorporating Age-Friendly principles into policies and the need for improving nursing home leadership.
Read the abstract.
Read about JAHF's co-funding of the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative and the Rapid Response Network for Nursing Homes through grants to IHI.
