Age-Friendly Healthcare Champion

Issued by University of North Dakota

Dakota Geriatrics (Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program) online curriculum, "Age Friendly Healthcare Microlectures," serves as a working model to provide foundational concepts of the Age Friendly Healthsystems framework of the Geriatrics 4Ms. Ththis curriculum provides reinforcement of concepts of Age-Friendly Healthcare through microlectures to healthcare professionals and preceptors to understand assessment and management of the 4Ms of What Matters, Mentation, Medication, and Mobility.

Type Learning
Level Advanced
Time Days
Cost Free

Skills

Earning Criteria

The learning objectives are as follows: (1) Be able to describe how to Transform clinical operations into Age-Friendly healthcare; (2) Be able to reliably apply Geriatric 4M assessments; and (3) Be able to implement action plans for Geriatric syndromes.
Introduction to Age Friendly Health Care Modules
Medications Modules
Mobility Modules
Mentation Modules
Age Friendly Care in Quality Improvement Modules
What Matters Modules
Pre- and post-test assessments
Evaluation survey

Standards

Geriatrics 4Ms

Age-Friendly Health Systems aim to: Follow an essential set of evidence-based practices; cause no harm; and align with What Matters to the older adult and their family caregivers.