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This article discusses recommendations for overcoming barriers to achieving consistent, high-quality clinical outcomes in long-term and post-acute care facilities. It also provides recommendations regarding inadequate workforce, suboptimal culture and...
This toolkit designed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvemnt (IHI) was created to help clinicians address some of the challenges of engaging with patients and their families regarding end-of-life conversations that develop over time. The toolkit...
This white paper provided by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) provides a framework to help health care organizations and clinicians provide respectful end-of-life care that is coordinated with a patient's goals, values, and preferences...
This report outlines the clinical practice guidelines for quality palliative care of older adults. It discusses ten domains while identifying specific guidelines within these domains regarding palliative care.The domains include: structure and process...
This framework provides a diagram of the 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Healthcare System. Each M within the framework is given a description of what it is.
Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
This brief video provides an introduction to the 4Ms Framework for Age-Friendly Health Systems. It discusses how healthcare professionals can deliver "what matters" evidence-based care to older adults reliably across every care setting.
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This toolkit is written to help health systems design better care for older adults while continuing to understand "what matters" the most to each adult. It also discusses how to prepare for and conduct specific "what matters" conversations with older...
This guide is designed to help health care teams test and implement a specific set of evidence-based geriatric practices called the 4M's. The 4M's include: What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility.
Source: Institute for...
This lecture (31:15 minutes) given by Mindy J. Fain discusses the aspects of an age-friendly health system. By the end of this lecture, learners should be able to: (1) explain the need for age-friendly health systems; (2) describe what is meant by age...
This toolkit includes guidance and materials to use in four simulations related to caring for older adults. The simulations include: an introduction to aging and home health nursing assessment, hospital care of older adults with a fall and acute...
The Age-Friendly Care and Education Collection is part of
Minnesota Northstar GWEP,
supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Award No. U1QHP33076, the University of Minnesota Office of Academic
Clinical Affairs, and the Otto Bremer Trust.