What's Next In Caring For Older People: The Age-Friendly Health System Movement
(Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2018)
Our healthcare system needs to rethink how we care for older adults. Older adults have more complex needs than other populations, but they struggle to meet those needs within and across all care settings — from home to clinics to hospitals and long-term care facilities and back home again. Part of this is due to the medical and social complexity of older adults and their more frequent transitions, compared to other age groups, between healthcare settings. Despite our current ecosystem of electronic health records and quality measurement, the often frustrating reality is that much of what is important to older people is rarely captured in the data, such as quality of life, function and goals. One program alone will not fix this.
Originally Published on Forbes (Aug 21, 2018), with Anna Chodos
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