Age-Friendly Health Systems: Age-Friendly Health Systems: Intervention and Implementation Outcomes - presented by Dr Robert E. Burke MD, MS and Leslie Pelton MPA and Prof Julia Adler-Milstein PhD and Cheryl Phillips M.D. AGSF

Age-Friendly Health Systems

Dr Robert E. Burke MD, MSLeslie Pelton MPAProf Julia Adler-Milstein PhDCheryl Phillips M.D. AGSF

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Special Collection: Age-Friendly Health Systems

The Age-Friendly Health Systems movement is one of the largest efforts to improve care delivery for older adults, with thousands of health care systems recognized as “Age-Friendly.” However, significant questions regarding this movement remain, including how best to implement evidence-based practices and the effect of Age-Friendly transformation on the outcomes of older adults.

This Special Collection will focus on issues of implementation and intervention effectiveness of Age-Friendly Health System redesign efforts, furthering the field.

Age-Friendly Health Systems: Intervention and Implementation Outcomes
Dr Robert E. Burke MD, MS
Robert E. Burke
University of Pennsylvania and Department of Veterans Affairs
Leslie Pelton MPA
Leslie Pelton
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Prof Julia Adler-Milstein PhD
Julia Adler-Milstein
University of California, San Francisco
Cheryl Phillips M.D. AGSF
Cheryl Phillips
John A. Hartford Foundation

Panel discussion questions:

  1. There is a growing realization that the tremendous scale and spread of AFHS hasn’t been matched by a growing evidence base. Why do you think this is, and what do you think are the right ways to start addressing this gap?

  2. One particular gap in the evidence is about the Age-Friendly movement itself – how it came to be so widespread, and what principles undergirded this success. What do you think helps explain why this movement has been so successful in terms of its spread, and what do you think we still need to learn?

  3. What do you see as promising opportunities for health care policy to support Age-Friendly implementation and sustainment? What do you think is needed in terms of evidence for policymakers?

  4. A key question I think is how to generate relevant evidence. There’s a lot of real-world experimentation with Age-Friendly and the 4Ms, but it’s in such heterogeneous contexts that it’s hard to generalize. Do we need randomized, controlled trials of the 4Ms? If not, what do you think is the best way to generate rigorous evidence?

  5. What do we know so far about Age-Friendly implementation outside the US? What lessons could we learn from evaluation of these initiatives?

  6. There’s an active debate about whether Age-Friendly care should be delivered (and measured) for all other adults, versus in specific populations that might be at highest risk, or most likely to respond. How do you think about this given your experience with Special Needs Plans?

  7. If you had a crystal ball, what do you predict the future of Age-Friendly Health Systems are? What do you think are the critical places of influence to get from here to there?

References
  • 1.
    R. L. Thombley et al. (2023) Developing electronic health record‐based measures of the 4Ms to support implementation and evidence generation for Age‐Friendly Health Systems. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • 2.
    A. M. Pohnert et al. (2022) Achievement of age‐friendly health systems committed to care excellence designation in a convenient care health care system. Health Services Research
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