Healthcare Innovation August 5, 2024
Measure has five domains: eliciting patient healthcare goals, responsible medication management, frailty screening and intervention, social vulnerability, and age-friendly care leadership
The Age-Friendly Health Systems movement recorded a significant achievement when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently added an Age-Friendly Hospital Measure as part of the fiscal year 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) rule.
Since the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement launched in 2017, nearly 5,000 care settings have been recognized as Age-Friendly Health System Participants, benefiting more than 3.75 million older adults who have received age-friendly care. Age-Friendly Health Systems is an initiative of The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), in partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the...