Age-Friendly resources

New to Age-Friendly care? These resources can support care settings as they work to advance high-quality care for older adults. Use them to deepen your understanding of Age-Friendly care and support local implementation efforts over time.

Resources on this page are organized by the 4Ms of Age-Friendly care (What Matters, Mobility, Mentation, and Medication). Additional resources have been identified to support Measurement (resources to support organizations in measuring the impact of their Age-Friendly work) and Spread (resources for organizations looking to expand and sustain Age-Friendly practices within and across care settings).

4Ms resource library

Getting started

• Age-Friendly recognition gap analysis (HANYS)
• CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure checklist (HANYS)

What Matters

• What Matters webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• What Matters To You Toolkit (Montefiore Health System)
• What Matters to Older Adults Toolkit (IHI)
• The Conversation Project Starter Guide (IHI and The Conversation Project)
• My Health Checklist (IHI)

Mobility

• Mobility webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• Age-Friendly Mobility Assessment Tools (IHI)
• Activity and Mobility Promotion (John’s Hopkins AMP)

Mentation

• Mentation webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• Tools for mentation (Penn State)

Medication

• Medication webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• Resources for clinicians (US Deprescribing Network)
• Reducing the Risk: Year 2 Report of the Polypharmacy in Nursing Homes Learning Collaborative (United Hospital Fund)
• Age-Friendly industry resources for pharmacists (ASCP)
• Meeting Domain 2 of the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure: Responsible Medication Management (Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative)

Measurement

• Measurement and spread webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• Age-Friendly Health Systems:  Measures Guide (IHI)
• 4Ms Evaluation Metrics Resource Library (University of California at San Francisco and AFHS Research Council)

Spread

• Spread and scale webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• Best practices in action webinar (HANYS) | recording | slides
• Age-Friendly Care System-wide Spread Self Assessment (IHI)
• Spreading Age-Friendly Care: Drivers of Successful Health System-wide Spread of the 4Ms (IHI)

Additional tools

These materials are intended to complement implementation and spread efforts.

New York case studies

• Team presentations day 1 (HANYS)
• Team presentations day 2 (HANYS)

The above materials are not a formal curriculum and use of these resources alone does not confer Age-Friendly Health Systems recognition. To apply for Age-Friendly recognition, complete and submit the appropriate care description worksheet, available on the IHI website.