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...
In this brief video, Dr. Mary Tinetti describes what it means to be an Age-Friendly Health System. An Age-Friendly Health Systerm is an initiative of the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in partnership...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...