Special Issue on Age-Friendly Health Systems
Health Services Research and The John A. Hartford Foundation have partnered to publish a special issue on Age-Friendly Health Systems.
This special issue is motivated by a collaboration of The John A. Hartford Foundation, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, American Hospital Association and Catholic Health Association to improve the safety and effectiveness of care for older adults. Together, these organizations launched the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative to build on evidence-based models of geriatric care and integrate them with a wider ecosystem of age-friendly public health, public policy, cities and states.
The goal is for all care for older adults to be age-friendly, meaning equitably applied in ways that minimize patient harms and are consistent with what matters to older adults and their families. The initiative is guided by a set of evidence-based practices: What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility. The papers below highlight cutting-edge research within this 4Ms framework. For more information on the 4Ms framework and Age-Friendly Health Systems, visit AHA.org/agefriendly.
Applying the age-friendly-health system 4M paradigm to reframe climate-related disaster preparedness for nursing home populations
David Dosa MD, MPH, Dylan Jester PhD, MPH, Lindsay Peterson PhD, Debra Dobbs PhD, Kathy Black PhD, Lisa Brown PhD, ABPP
Perceived Benefits of Geriatric Specialty Telemedicine among Rural Patients and Caregivers Research
Eileen M. Dryden PhD, Meaghan A. Kennedy MD, MPH, Jennifer Conti MPH, Jacqueline H. Boudreau MPH, Chitra P. Anwar MA, Kathryn Nearing PhD, MA, Camilla B. Pimentel PhD, MPH, William W. Hung MD, MPH, Lauren R. Moo MD
Geriatric Fracture Program Centering Age-Friendly Care Associated with Lower Length of Stay and Lower Direct Costs
Kathleen Breda NP, MSN, BBA, AGACNP-BC, ONP-C, Michelle S. Keller PhD, MPH, Hiroshi Gotanda MD, PhD, Alexander Beland DO, Karma McKelvey PhD, MPH, Carol Lin MD, Sonja Rosen MD
Provider discussion of health goals and psychosocial needs: Comparing older to younger veteran experience
Alison M. Cogan PhD, OTR/L, Debra Saliba MD, MPH, W. Neil Steers, Stephen Frochen PhD, Kimberly A. Lynch MD, MS, David A. Ganz MD, PhD, Donna L. Washington MD, MPH, FACP
Telehealth for geriatric post-emergency department visits to promote age-friendly care
Colleen M. McQuown MD, Kristina T. Snell, Lauren M. Abbate MD, PhD, Ethan M. Jetter MPH, Jennifer K. Blatnik MSW, Luna C. Ragsdale MD, MPH
Impact of a collaboration revolving around virtual capacity evaluations
Ronan Factora MD, Ardeshir Z. Hashmi MD
Achievement of age-friendly health systems committed to care excellence designation in a convenient care health care system
Anne M. Pohnert MSN, RN, FNP-BC, Nicholas K. Schiltz PhD, Lilia Pino PhD, RN, FNP-C, Sarah Ball MSN, RN, APRN, Evelyn G. Duffy DNP, AGPCNP-BC, FAANP, Mary E. McCormack MSN, MPH, RN, APNC, Brant Oliver PhD, MS, MPH, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, Angela Patterson DNP, FNP-BC, NEA-BC, FAANP, Leslie Pelton MPA, Mary A. Dolansky PhD, RN, FAAN
Collaborating toward equity in Pennsylvania: The Age-Friendly Care, PA project
Diane Berish PhD, Erica Husser PhD, Jenny Knecht-Fredo MSN, CRNP, Jacqueline Sabol MEd, George Garrow MD, Judith Hupcey EdD, CRNP, FAAN, Donna Fick RN, GCNS-BC, PhD, FGSA, FAAN
An Age Friendly population health dashboard geolocating by clinical and social determinant needs
Ardeshir Z. Hashmi MD, James Christy, Saket Saxena MD, Ronan Factora MD
Unmet needs for food, medicine, and mental health services among vulnerable older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ming Tai-Seale MPH, PHD, Michael W. Cheung BA, Jamie Kwak BSPH, Victoria Harris MPH, Samantha Madonis MSN, RN, PHN, Lc Russell MSN, BSN, RN, Eileen Haley MSN, RN, CNS, CCM, Parag Agnihotri MD
How “age-friendly” are deprescribing interventions? A scoping review of deprescribing trials
Jinjiao Wang PhD, RN, Jenny Y. Shen MD, Yeates Conwell MD, Eric J. Podsiadly BA, Thomas V. Caprio MD, MPH, MS, Kobi Nathan PharmD, Fang Yu PhD, RN, GNP-BC, FGSA, FAAN, Erika E. Ramsdale MD, Donna M. Fick PhD, FAAN, Amanda S. Mixon MD, MS, MSPH, Sandra F. Simmons PhD
The effect of the right care, right place, right time (R3) initiative on Medicare health service use among older affordable housing residents
Jane Tavares PhD, Liz Simpson MPH, MS, Edward Alan Miller PhD, MPA, Pamela Nadash PhD, BPhil, Marc Cohen PhD
Effects of an electronic health record-based mobility assessment and automated referral for inpatient physical therapy on patient outcomes: A quasi-experimental study
Aileen Chou PT, DPT, Joshua K. Johnson DPT, PhD, Daniel B. Jones PhD, Tracey Euloth MPT, Beth A. Matcho PT, Andrew Bilderback MS, Janet K. Freburger PT, PhD
Age-Friendly Health Systems: Improving care for older adults in the Veterans Health Administration
Kimberly Church MS, Shannon Munro PhD, APRN, BC, NP, Marianne Shaughnessy PhD, AGPCNP-BC, GS-C, Carolyn Clancy MD, MACP