Purpose Becoming an Age-Friendly Health System entails reliably providing a set of evidence-based, geriatric best-practice interventions across four core elements, known as the “4Ms,” to all older adults in your system. The 4Ms are the essential elements of high-quality care for older adults and, when implemented together, represent a broad shift by health systems to focus on the needs of older adults.
4M’s Framework for a Age Friendly Health System
The Format:
A “recipe” for reliable integration of the 4Ms into your standard care has steps and ingredients, just like a recipe to make a salad, main dish, or dessert. These steps include:
- Get ready to assess and act on the 4Ms
- Define what it means to provide care consistent with the 4Ms
- Design/adapt your workflow to deliver care consistent with the 4Ms, including how you will document the 4Ms
- Provide care consistent with the 4Ms
- Study your performance – how reliable is your care? What impact does your care have?
- Improve and sustain care consistent with the 4Ms
Program structure and timelines:
Spread and Scale up Model:
In this phase, IHI will work with key stakeholders to develop a dissemination strategy and develop a strategy to create an enabling environment that supports the accelerated scale-up of the 4Ms framework across HMC
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