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Community Catalyst’s Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation partnered with Rush University Medical Center’s Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP), CATCH-ON (Collaborative Action Team training for Community Health – Older adult Network), to develop a suite of consumer-facing, age-friendly “4M” materials. The 4Ms are a framework first developed by the Institute for Health Improvement and The John A. Hartford Foundation as part of their Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative - an evidence-based approach to high quality care for older adults. They are: What Matters, Medication, Mind (or Mentation) and Mobility. The Community Catalyst's Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation developed the materials through a co-design process with older adults and family caregivers. These educational materials describe the 4Ms in language easily understood by older adults and family caregivers and enable them to ask helpful questions at their doctors’ appointments in order to get the care they need and want. Downloads are available as both English and Spanish PDFs.

Source: Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation, 2021
https://www.healthinnovation.org/resources/publications/engaging-older-adults-and-family-caregivers-for-bettter-health