Age-Friendly resources

New to Age-Friendly care? These resources can support care settings as they work to advance high-quality care for older adults. Use them to deepen your understanding of Age-Friendly care and support local implementation efforts over time.

Latest publications

Delivering Dementia-Capable Age-Friendly Care

HANYS and the Alzheimer’s Association are bridging the Age-Friendly 4Ms framework with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias-specific practices to help providers better recognize, manage and support individuals living with ADRD and their care partners. This guide offers clear, specific matrices that outline how ADRD intersects with each of the 4Ms in ambulatory, hospital and long-term care environments. It also includes dementia care journeys, teaching tools and a rich resource list to help clinicians deliver better care to older adults with ADRD.

• Download the report
• Download the archetypes | PDF | PNG
• Download the self-assessment

HANYS’ My Health Checklist patient education

HANYS’ patient education videos promote use of the IHI My Health Checklist and support more meaningful, person-centered conversations between older adults, caregivers and care teams. The checklist helps patients reflect on what matters most, prepare questions before their visit and participate actively in care conversations.

We encourage you to leverage these free, ready-to-use videos and incorporate them into your broader patient education and engagement strategies.

• My Health Checklist (IHI) - helps patients and care partners develop a plan of care centered on what matters most.
• Patient education
  • Waiting room video (HANYS) – intended to be shown in waiting rooms and other public-facing areas to introduce the My Health Checklist and encourage patient engagement.
  • Social media video (HANYS) – designed to promote awareness of the My Health Checklist on social media.
  • Implementation guidance (HANYS) – provides practical guidance for deploying the checklist and videos across care settings.

4Ms resource library

This section is organized by the 4Ms of Age-Friendly care (What Matters, Mobility, Mentation, and Medication). Additional resources have been identified to support Measurement (resources to support organizations in measuring the impact of their Age-Friendly work) and Spread (resources for organizations looking to expand and sustain Age-Friendly practices within and across care settings).

Getting started

• Age-Friendly recognition gap analysis (HANYS)
• CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure checklist (HANYS)

What Matters

• What Matters webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• What Matters To You Toolkit (Montefiore Health System)
• What Matters to Older Adults Toolkit (IHI)
• The Conversation Project Starter Guide (IHI and The Conversation Project)
• My Health Checklist (IHI)

Mobility

• Mobility webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• Age-Friendly Mobility Assessment Tools (IHI)
• Activity and Mobility Promotion (John’s Hopkins AMP)

Mentation

• Mentation webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• Tools for mentation (Penn State)

Medication

• Medication webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• Resources for clinicians (US Deprescribing Network)
• Reducing the Risk: Year 2 Report of the Polypharmacy in Nursing Homes Learning Collaborative (United Hospital Fund)
• Age-Friendly industry resources for pharmacists (ASCP)
• Meeting Domain 2 of the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure: Responsible Medication Management (Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative)

Measurement

• Measurement and spread webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• Age-Friendly Health Systems: Measures Guide (IHI)
• 4Ms Evaluation Metrics Resource Library (University of California at San Francisco and AFHS Research Council)

Spread

• Spread and scale webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• Best practices in action webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• Age-Friendly Care System-wide Spread Self Assessment (IHI)
• Spreading Age-Friendly Care: Drivers of Successful Health System-wide Spread of the 4Ms (IHI)

Additional tools

These materials are intended to complement implementation and spread efforts.

New York case studies

• Team presentations day 1 (HANYS)
• Team presentations day 2 (HANYS)

The above materials are not a formal curriculum and use of these resources alone does not confer Age-Friendly Health Systems recognition. To apply for Age-Friendly recognition, complete and submit the appropriate care description worksheet, available on the IHI website.