Tools

An Age-Friendly Health System entails reliably providing a set of four evidence-based elements of high-quality care, known as the “4Ms,” to all older adults in your system: What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility.  Learn more about this national initiative here.

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M: What Matters 

• Patient Priorities Care  (Current Care Planning for patients)

• Advance Care Planning 

• How to Have Conversations with Older Adults about What Matters

 

M: Mind / Mentation (includes Dementia, Delirium, Depression)

• Champions for Health and the local Alzheimer’s Project Initiative

• Mini-Cog Assessment Tool

• Depression Screening: PHQ-9

 

M: Medication

• AGS Beers Criteria® 

• STOPP/START Criteria 

• Medication Appropriateness Index 

• Deprescribing.org 

 

M: Mobility

• https://www.cdc.gov/steadi