Aging with Intention: How the 4Ms and My Health Checklist Can Guide Care for Veterans and Their Families
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Summary
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) recently published a blog post exploring how the 4Ms of age-friendly care can be applied to veterans.
The 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Health System is an initiative of IHI and the John A. Hartford Foundation and is composed of four evidence-based elements of high-quality care, including:
• What Matters: Knowing and aligning care with older adults’ health goals and care preferences.
• Medication: Using medication that does not interfere with what matters to the older adult, mobility, or mentation across settings of care.
• Mentation: Preventing, identifying, and managing dementia, delirium, and depression across settings of care.
• Mobility: Ensuring that older adults move safely every day in order to maintain function and do What Matters.
In the blog post, readers can learn how to put the 4Ms into practice from a veterans’ perspective and explore how aging and caregiving intersect with military-connected families. The author also highlights how to use the My Health Checklist to help veterans prepare for medical appointments, identify priorities, list medications, and document what matters to them.
The 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Health System is an initiative of IHI and the John A. Hartford Foundation and is composed of four evidence-based elements of high-quality care, including:
• What Matters: Knowing and aligning care with older adults’ health goals and care preferences.
• Medication: Using medication that does not interfere with what matters to the older adult, mobility, or mentation across settings of care.
• Mentation: Preventing, identifying, and managing dementia, delirium, and depression across settings of care.
• Mobility: Ensuring that older adults move safely every day in order to maintain function and do What Matters.
In the blog post, readers can learn how to put the 4Ms into practice from a veterans’ perspective and explore how aging and caregiving intersect with military-connected families. The author also highlights how to use the My Health Checklist to help veterans prepare for medical appointments, identify priorities, list medications, and document what matters to them.