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Three Keys to Cross-Sector Age-Friendly Care
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| 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. |
Organizational Trustworthiness in Health Care
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| The Institute for Healthcare Improvement partnered with the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation to identify key organizational-level drivers and change ideas that repair, build, and strengthen trust between health care organizations and clinicians, and between health care organizations and the communities they serve. This report describes a theory of how to repair, build, and strengthen trust, presented as a three-step approach with specific change ideas and associated measures for improvement. |
Ensuring Equitable Age-Friendly Care
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| 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
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| 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. |
Telemedicine: Ensuring Safe, Equitable, Person-Centered Virtual Care
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| This white paper describes a framework to guide health care organizations in their efforts to provide safe, equitable, person-centered telemedicine. The framework includes six elements to consider: access, privacy, diagnostic accuracy, communication, psychological and emotional safety, and human factors and system design. |
Leveraging National Nursing Home Huddles for Rapid COVID-19 Response
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| This article describes the use of daily 20-minute huddles with nursing home staff across the US to rapidly identify and implement best practices to reduce COVID-19-related morbidity, mortality, and transmission. |
100 Million Healthier Lives Engaging People with Lived Experience Tools
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| This collection of resources, developed as part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative, provides key information and tools to support communities and organizations to authentically engage people with lived experience in co-design and implementation efforts. |
Moving Toward a Global Age-Friendly Ecosystem
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| This article reviews the historical evolution of age-friendly programs and describes a vision for an age-friendly ecosystem. |
Virtual Learning Hour Special Series: COVID-19: Age-Friendly Care During a Pandemic
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| June 12, 2020 | The 4Ms Framework of an Age-Friendly Health System can be adapted and offer critical guidance to care for older adults, who are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. |
WIHI: Assessing the Value of Age-Friendly Health Care
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| June 13, 2019 | Are there financial benefits to being an Age-Friendly Health System? Learn about the potential to unlock cost savings and generate new revenue, all while providing safer, more appropriate care for older adults. |
WIHI: Women in Action: Paving the Way for Better Care
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| December 20, 2018 | Whether it’s blowing the whistle on the dangerous levels of lead in drinking water in Flint, Michigan, championing the healing powers of dance and movement in hospitals, or shining a human spotlight on disease outbreaks throughout the world, this special edition of WIHI features a panel of outstanding women who are creatively and effectively reshaping caregiving. |
WIHI: Connecting Patient Experience to Culture and Strategic Aims
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| August 9, 2018 | Most hospitals are understandably preoccupied with patient experience scores. But can those same scores help guide an organization to the aims and values it hopes to achieve? |
WIHI: Mobility Matters for Age-Friendly Care
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| March 22, 2018 | A new initiative wants to emphasize the physical and mental health benefits of mobility and encourage greater mobility for older patients as part of a broadening vision of age-friendly care. |
WIHI: Aging in Place with a Disability and Dignity
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| February 22, 2018 | One of the biggest challenges facing older patients with disabilities is that the care and support services needed to function optimally at home are often fragmented — and not always obtainable. |
WIHI: Practicing More Careful and Thoughtful Diagnosis
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| February 8, 2018 | What's next when the diagnosis process is causing as many problems as it's trying to solve? |
WIHI: The Careful and Kind Patient Revolution
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| December 7, 2017 | Victor Montori argues that it is time for providers to look up from strict protocols and guidelines long enough to get curious about their patients' lives and begin to minimize barriers to better health, not add to them. |
WIHI: When Patients Feel as Powerless as Hostages
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| November 21, 2017 | Is "hostage" the right way to describe how patients and family members sometimes feel when they're trying to get the care they need? |
Discharge to Assess: “Flipping” Discharge Assessment from Hospital to Home
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| Discharge to Assess (D2A) (also referred to as "flipped discharge") is a redesign of the care process at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in the UK that involves assessing a patient’s needs after discharge in the patient’s own home rather than in the hospital. Activities that traditionally happen at the end of a hospital admission are instead performed successfully and safely at home, thus enabling patients who are medically ready to go home earlier and spend less time in the acute care setting. |
Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems: How to Meet the Needs of a Growing Population of Older Adults
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| This article explains 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 health systems, as part of the Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative led by IHI. |
Experience-Based Co-Design of Health Care Services
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| This case study from the IHI/Commonwealth Fund International Program for US Health Care System Innovation describes experience-based co-design (EBCD), developed in the UK, which brings together narrative-based research with service design methods to catalyze a process wherein patients and staff work together to design, implement, and test improvements to health care services. |
Postal Service “Call & Check Visits” for Isolated, Frail Elderly in the Community
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| This case study from the IHI/Commonwealth Fund International Program for US Health Care System Innovation describes the "Call & Check Visits” program developed by Jersey Post in Jersey, British Channel Islands, in which postal service workers check on isolated, frail elderly residents in the community, deliver prescription refills, remind clients of upcoming medical visits, and ask about their health and social needs. |
Personalized Perfect Care
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| The authors propose measuring quality from the patient’s perspective as an expression of his or her personalized health needs. The Personalized Perfect Care Bundle combines several distinct measures into one and is scored as “all-or-none,” with the patient’s care being counted as complete if he or she has met all of the quality measures for which he or she is eligible. |
The Age-Friendly Health System Imperative
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| The article gives an overview of how five early-adopter US health systems — working in partnership with IHI and The John A. Hartford Foundation as part of the Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative — are testing prototype models for age-friendly care using continuous improvement efforts to streamline and enhance new approaches to geriatric care. |
Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems: A Vision for Better Care of Older Adults
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| This article describes the background, evidence-based changes, and testing, scale-up, and spread strategy that are part of the design of the Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative to improve care for older adults. |
When Patients and Their Families Feel Like Hostages to Health Care
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| A power imbalance often still exists in the patient-provider relationship, particularly when high-stakes health decisions have to be made. This article explores this dynamic, likening it to “hostage bargaining syndrome” — that is, the patient behaves as if negotiating for their health from a position of fear and confusion -- and suggests ways to counteract this behavior. |
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