In this episode, Edel talks to Dr. Andrea Wershof Schwartz and Dr. Kirstyn James about Age Friendly Health Systems and the 4Ms – Mobility, Mentation, Medication and What Matters. Dr. Schwartz is a geriatrician at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Boston and Associate Director for Clinical Innovation in the New England Geriatric Research
Education and Clinical Center. Dr. Schwartz is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Kirstyn James, Consultant in Geriatric Medicine, Cork University Hospital and Alumnus of the RCPI Quality Improvement Scholarship and the Harvard Medical School Geriatric Medicine Fellowship.

For more information from discussion points:

•  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Age Friendly Health Systems Initiative: https://www.ihi.org/networks/initiatives/age-friendly-health-systems


• US Veterans Affairs Age Friendly movement:  https://marketplace.va.gov/communities/age-friendly


• Mobility Assessment:


• Mobility Assessment in Older Adults- NEJM


• One Step at a Time: Improving Gait Speed Measurement in a Geriatric Medicine Clinic


• Medications: Optimizing Medications: An
  Age-Friendly Approach | Drugs & Aging (springer.com)


• Age Friendly Education: An interprofessional workshop based on the 4Ms for an age‐friendly health system - JAGS

Feedback, questions, suggestions always welcome to
askigspodcast@gmail.com