Delivering Dementia-Capable Age-Friendly Care
A 4Ms resource for healthcare providers
HANYS and the Alzheimer’s Association are bridging the Age-Friendly 4Ms framework with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias-specific practices to help providers better recognize, manage and support individuals living with ADRD and their care partners. This guide offers clear, specific matrices that outline how ADRD intersects with each of the 4Ms in ambulatory, hospital and long-term care environments. It also includes dementia care journeys, teaching tools and a rich resource list to help clinicians deliver better care to older adults with ADRD.
Whether used in daily practice, team huddles, training sessions or quality improvement projects, Delivering Dementia-Capable Age-Friendly Care serves as both a clinical reference and an action-oriented planning tool for healthcare teams.
Introduction
- What is Age-Friendly 4Ms care?
- Why focus on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias?
- Purpose of this resource
- How to use this guide
Applying the 4Ms: Dementia-capable practice matrices
- Ambulatory care
- Hospital care
- Long-term care
Practical narrative tools: Dementia care journeys
- Applying the 4Ms to dementia care journeys
- Purpose of the dementia care journeys
- How to use these tools
- Connection to the matrices
Archetypes
- James and Molly
- Annette and Stephen
- Denise and Latrice
Appendices
- Appendix A: Provider self-assessment
- Appendix B: Dementia care journeys
- Appendix C: Clinical resources, tools and implementation guidance
