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Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems: How to Meet the Needs of a Growing Population of Older Adults

Pelton LJ, Fulmer T, Hendrich A, Mate K. Creating age-friendly health systems. Healthcare Executive. 2017 Nov;32(6):62-63.

This article describes an emerging care model for older adults focused on the “4Ms” of Age-Friendly Health Systems — What Matters, Mobility, Medications, and the Mentation of older adults — that is in the testing phase at five US health systems, as part of the Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative led by IHI.

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Care and Health for Older Adults at the ihi national forum

December 8-11, 2019 | Orlando, FL

Care and Health for Older Adults is a featured track at the 2019 IHI National Forum.

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Three Keys to Cross-Sector Age-Friendly Care

Improving Public Health and Health Care for Older Adults: The Three Keys to Cross-Sector Age-Friendly Work Implementation Guide and Workbook contains resources to improve how public health and health care organizations work across the care continuum to reliably provide evidence-based care and services to every older adult at every interaction, with a foundational focus on equity.
Ensuring Equitable Age-Friendly Care

This article presents six steps to address inequities in the care of older adults, aligned with each step of the journey to becoming an Age-Friendly Health System.
Home-based Acute Care: Getting Started Guide

West Health Institute and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement collaborated to identify hospital-alternative care pathways for unplanned acute events for older adults, seeking the most efficient and effective ways to treat older patients in their own homes. This resource provides guidance for organizations seeking to design and implement home-based clinical and operational acute care models for older adults.
Getting Serious about Producing Health: The Ten Teams Challenge

In this article, Dr. Don Berwick makes the case that every US hospital and integrated health system with the means to do so should immediately establish and support Ten Teams, focused on 10 social influences on health in the region served by the organization.
Blending Participatory Action Synthesis and Meta-Ethnography: An Innovative Approach to Evaluating Complex Community Health Transformation

This article describes an innovative participatory approach to evaluation of a community transformation initiative, the 100 Million Healthier Lives SCALE (Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation) initiative, that involved up to 18 communities across the US.

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Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems: How to Meet the Needs of a Growing Population of Older Adults

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