PFC 203: Providing Age-Friendly Care to Older Adults
PFC 203: Providing Age-Friendly Care to Older Adults
Overview
The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), in partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA), set a bold vision to build a social movement so that all care with older adults is age-friendly care. This means all older adults receive care that: follows an essential set of evidence-based practices; causes no harm; aligns with what matters to the older adult and their family caregivers Becoming an Age-Friendly Health System entails reliably providing a set of four evidence-based elements of high-quality care, known as the “4Ms,” to all older adults in your system. When implemented together, the 4Ms represent a broad shift by health systems to focus on the needs of older adults.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Define age-friendly care.
- Describe the 4Ms framework, which presents four evidence-based elements of high-quality care for older adults.
- Explain how you will assess the current state of the 4Ms in your health system and how to act on those findings to incorporate the 4Ms into routine care.
- List six steps you will take to integrate the 4Ms into standard care for older adults.
Lessons
- Lesson 1: Overview of Age-Friendly Health Systems
This lesson will review the 4Ms Framework. Follow along with the Guide to Using the 4Ms in the Care of Older Adults to learn how to become an Age-Friendly Health System.
- Lesson 2: Putting the 4Ms into Practice: A Recipe
This lesson will review a series of steps (a “recipe”) for integrating the 4Ms into your standard care: understand your current state; describe care consistent with the 4Ms; design or adapt your workflow; provide care; study your performance; improve and sustain care. In practice, you can approach steps two through six as a loop aligned with Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles.
- Lesson 3: Integrating the 4Ms into Care Using PDSA
This lesson will review how to do this.
Estimated Time of Completion: 1 hour 15 minutes
Continuing Education Credits
Course completion typically earns 1.25 Continuing Education credits. Please read the full details to ensure that this course offers your desired credit type. Learn more about Continuing Education credits
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In support of improving patient care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the health care team.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 1.25 credits for nurses and pharmacists.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 general continuing education credits.
By attending PFC 203 offered by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement participants may earn up to 1.25 ACHE Qualifying Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation.
Subscriptions
This course is available in the following IHI Open School subscriptions: