Report: Advancing Age-Friendly Care - An Assessment of the CMS Inpatient Quality Reporting Age-Friendly Hospital Measure
A national expert panel has published a report, "Advancing Age-Friendly Care: An Assessment of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Age-Friendly Hospital Measure," developed in partnership with The John A. Hartford Foundation. The panel was convened by Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, who leads the Age-Friendly Health Systems Research Network based at the University of California, San Francisco.
This report reflects the work of a national expert panel convened to assess the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure, newly incorporated into the Inpatient Quality Reporting Program. This is the first structural measure in a federal payment program specifically focused on the care of older adults.
The panelists offer perspectives on how the measure can meaningfully elevate age-friendly care to a hospital-wide priority. The report outlines specific, actionable strategies and a multi-phase evaluation agenda to assess hospital implementation, attestation patterns, and associations with hospital characteristics and patient outcomes. The report notes that "as CMS considers transitioning from attestation to accountability, robust evaluation will be critical to maximizing the impact of this foundational measure."
Read the report.
Go to the news release.
Learn more about the CMS IQR Program.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of UCSF.
