How Doctors Achieve Diagnostic Excellence
Accurately diagnosing older adults can be challenging for a number of reasons. Providers have to consider the aging process and effective communication which is discussed by Evelyn Mwangi and Christine Cassel in this video.
Source: WebMD, 2023
https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/toc-aging-well
CHAP Age-Friendly Care at Home: Blogs and Podcasts
This resource provides different links to various blogs and podcasts addressing Age-Friendly Care.
Source: Community Health Accreditation Partner, 2022.
https://chapinc.org/
Engaging Older Adults and Family Caregivers
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.
GWEP-CC Age-Friendly Health Systems Case Studies
This series of Case Studies is focused on primary care experiences implementing the 4Ms (Mentation, Medications, Mobility, What Matters) of Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) in their practices. Case study authors participated in the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Coordinating Center (GWEP-CC) AFHS Action Community (2020-2021). The Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI) has recognized these practices as an Age-Friendly Health System Participant (Level-1) or Age-Friendly Health System – Committed to Care Excellence (Level-2).
Community Grand Rounds: An Inconvenient Care
Grand rounds are an integral component of medical education. It helps doctors and other healthcare professionals keep up to date in important evolving areas which may be outside of their core practice. In the hospital or health system, they are hosted in an auditorium or symposium for everyone to gather and continue their learning. The purpose of this activity is to educate medical practitioners working in community-based care on the importance of Age Friendly Care (AFC). As Age Friendly Care continues to grow and gain momentum, community-based care can be an integral part of AFC.
“Who Ya Gonna Call?” When Your Patients Can’t Decide by Themselves
In daily clinical practice, care decisions must be made even when patients lack capacity to independently provide informed consent and shared decision-making. If the patient has not named someone to speak for them, it can become a challenge to know how best to proceed. This presentation explores various complexities of surrogate decision making and proposes strategies for honoring patient values and goals when alternate decision makers are needed.
Toolkit for Creating Person-Centered Care and Service Plans
The resources in this toolkit provide practical ideas for improving the care planning process. The first set of practice-oriented resources is for professionals who develop and write care and service plans while the "Policy and Practice" document provides recommendations geared toward policymakers and health plan officials.
Person-Centered Enrollment Strategies for Integrated Care Toolkit
About the Person-Centered Enrollment Strategies for Integrated Care Project: For individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, misaligned incentives across these programs can result in higher costs and worse health outcomes. As a result, policymakers have been especially interested in developing integrated programs to better coordinate services.
"Medicaid ACO Checklist for Advocates "
The Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation has created a toolkit to guide advocates as they assess and work with state’s Medicaid ACOs (Accountable Care Organizations). Each section contains a list of items to consider as Medicaid ACOs are designed and implemented. Creating this type of system takes time and is an evolving process. The most fundamental part of each component is to ensure that the consumer voice is present. Consumer advocates can play a role in the design, implementation and oversight of Medicaid ACOs.
Art + Medicine: Healthy Aging
Art + Medicine explores healthcare through story, song and the arts. In this video, Drs. Jon Hallberg and Tseganesh Selameab explore healthy aging through the 4M's framework of Mobility, Mentation (more commonly thought as mood and memory), Medication and What Matters to older adults, all with an artistic lens. This series is a co-production of TPT-Twin Cities PBS and the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Source: Twin Cities PBS, 2022