Using Evidence-Based Programs to Promote Age-Friendly Health Systems

This webinar will describe the Age-Friendly Health System initiative and its goals. Presenters will review the 4M’s framework for providing appropriate care in an Age-Friendly Health System: 

• What Matters-aligning care with older adult’s specific goals; 
• Mentation-managing dementia and depression across care settings; 
• Mobility-ensuring older adults can move safely to accomplish What Matters; and 
• Medications-ensuring that medications do not interfere with the other M’s. 

Presenters will provide real-life examples of how two evidence-based programs facilitate achieving the 4M’s. The webinar will also discuss how evidence-based programs integrate with the 4M's framework how to find additional information and locate evidence-based programs using www.eblcprograms.org resources.   The presenters will be:

• Paige Denison, chair of the Evidence-Based Leadership Council (EBLC), and 
• Dr. Sue Hughes, director of the Center for Research on Health and Aging at the University of Illinois at Chicago