30 U.S. Health Systems Comprise New Age-Friendly Collaborative

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is launching a so-called “Age-Friendly System-Wide Spread Collaborative, engaging 30 U.S. health systems to accelerate and spread adoption of evidence-based, high-quality care for older adults across all of their sites and care settings.” They announced the collaborative on April 16.

The Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative has “recognized 3,907 care settings as Age-Friendly since 2018, benefiting 3.29 million older adults.” Age-Friendly Health Systems emphasize what they call the “4Ms: What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility.”

The 30 health systems part of this newly-announced collective include “hospitals, ambulatory care practices, convenient care clinics, and nursing homes.” They will each seek to achieve “an ambitious new IHI recognition for system-wide spread of the 4Ms.”