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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 Healthcare Improvement (IHI), 2020.

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.

Source: RUSH Center for Excellence in Aging
https://www.rush.edu/

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 of care, physical aspects of care, psychological and psychiatric aspects of care, social aspects of care, spiritual, religious, and existential aspects of care, cultural aspects of care, care of the patient nearing the end of life, and ethical and legal aspects of care.

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 provides and details four patient cases with diverse backgrounds and experiences at different points of illness, along with diverse clinicians in various care settings.