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Age-Friendly Health Systems Pathways Selection Tool

Complete the Age-Friendly Health Systems Pathways Selection Tool to learn more about the AFHS movement and ways to participate and be recognized.
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Older Adult Behavioral Health

With approximately 10,000 Americans turning 65 every day, older adults’ behavioral health is an area of significant concern — particularly when you consider that chronic conditions common in older adults such as diabetes, stroke, hearing loss or heart disease can put them at greater risk of depression and anxiety.
Stories

Hospital’s Community Friendship Volunteer Program helps reduce social isolation among older adults

To reduce social isolation and loneliness among older adults and help improve their health and well-being, Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital launched the Community Friendship Volunteer Program in fall 2024.
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From virtual singing to walking groups, Dartmouth Health’s programs for older adults enhance health

The Aging Resource Center, part of the health system’s Geriatric Center of Excellence, offers free educational classes, support and services to improve the minds, bodies and spirits of older adults and their families.
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Healthy Aging: Leveraging Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Create Age-Friendly Health Systems

Age-Friendly Health Systems is an initiative designed to meet the needs of older adults, looking beyond acute events, engaging the whole community, and achieving better health for older adults. Join this webinar to learn about the impact and outcomes of the 4Ms Framework — what matters, medications, mobility and mentation — through a case example featuring Atrium Health. Learn how they tracked data and used the skill set of their team to provide reliable 4Ms care to older adults. (Webinar presented August 9, 2023)
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Chair File: Working to Create Age-Friendly Health Systems

There were 54 million U.S. residents 65 or older in 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The agency projects that number will grow by nearly 30 million (to 84 million) by 2050. 
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Partnering with Area Agencies on Aging: Tactics for Success

As the US population continues to age, leaders at hospitals and health systems are increasingly partnering with community-based organizations to address the social and non-medical health needs of older individuals, including nutrition and transportation assistance, social connection, and caregiver support.
Case Studies
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Case Study: Healthy Together Care Partnership Embeds Age-Friendly Framework into Practice

Six years after Banner Health created its Healthy Together Care Partnership, the HTCP team joined the American Hospital Association’s Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community and began its journey to embed age-friendly care into practice. As a result, patient and provider satisfaction scores for patients who receive age-friendly care has increased, costs have decreased, and promising outcomes related to emergency utilization have been reported.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

What’s Behind Humana’s Expanding Investments in Senior-Focused Clinics?

If you continue building, will they still come? In a nutshell, that’s what some analysts wanted Humana Inc. President and CEO Bruce Broussard to answer on a recent earnings call regarding his company’s $600 million joint venture with private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe to help finance building 50 more Humana Partners in Primary Care clinics over the next three years.