Creating value with Age-Friendly Health Systems: Driving change and improving outcomes - Recording

1 - 2 p.m.

Note: This event was initially scheduled for June 8. If you registered for the original webinar, you do not need to re-register to attend on Nov. 1 and will receive an updated notice from our events team. Those unable to attend can view a recording on the website.

Building upon EQIC’s unit-based safety focus, this presentation will address the importance of ensuring all care for older adults is age-friendly care. A health system is “age friendly” when it’s expertly designed to coordinate care as patients age, while also making sure their personal needs, values and preferences are at the heart of that care.

Participants will learn about Age-Friendly Health Systems, which aim to:

• follow an essential set of evidence-based practices (known as the 4Ms);
• cause no harm; and
• align with what matters to the older adult and their family and/or caregivers.

IHI faculty member Mary Tinniti, MD, will overview the “4Ms” framework — What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility — and key components of age-friendly care, which are intended to make the complex care of older adults manageable. When implemented together, the 4Ms represent a broad shift by health systems to focus on the needs of older adults resulting in significant improvements and optimizing value for all.

Participants also will hear how two age-friendly health systems navigated COVID-19 challenges and successfully piloted, tested and scaled up 4Ms care in their care units, hospital and across their health network.

EQIC encourages hospital staff responsible for unit-based safety, including key liaisons; chief nursing officers; chief quality officers; geriatricians; nursing managers and staff; social workers; care unit interdisciplinary team members including hospitalists, patient safety managers, educators; and other providers who specialize in the care of older adults to attend.

Speakers:

Mary Tinetti, MD, Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Emeritus Chief of Geriatrics, Yale University School of Medicine

Alan Roth, DO, Chairman of the MediSys Health Network Department of Family Medicine, Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and Flushing Hospital Medical Center

Deborah Snow, RN, BSN, Nursing Supervisor, Wyoming County Community Health System

For registration questions, contact: learning@hanys.org or (518) 431-7867