Age-Friendly Health Systems

Older adults have unique needs.

To prevent harm to older adults, improve health outcomes, and lower overall costs, health systems must adopt evidence-based models and practices that deliver better care to our rapidly aging population across all settings, including the home and community.

In partnership with expert innovators and health care leaders, The John A. Hartford Foundation is working to create health systems that are age-friendly and better able to meet the goals of the Triple Aim.

In addition to our signature Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative (see below), we have multiple programs that are helping health systems become more age-friendly. View our list of grants and our Dissemination Center to learn more.

Our grantmaking in this area will:

  • Develop large-scale approaches that help health systems transform care;
  • Operationalize the essential elements of good care, building on the Foundation’s investments in evidence-based models and best practices; and
  • Better integrate community-based supports and services within the health system and across the continuum of care.

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Age-Friendly Health Systems Initiative

A movement to help spread the reliable delivery of age-friendly care - based on the 4Ms framework (what Matters, Medication, Mentation, Mobility) - to all health care settings.

AFHS Initiative

Age-Friendly Care and the 4Ms

Older adults and family caregivers can learn more about what age-friendly care is and how they can ask for it from their health care providers. The page is available in Spanish as well.

Age-Friendly Care

Building an Age-Friendly Ecosystem

We are working with partners from across the Age-Friendly Ecosystem to elevate all things age-friendly and jumpstart the co-creation of shared strategies that increase our collective impact.

Age-Friendly Ecosystem
 

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