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Age-Friendly Initiatives and Primary Care in Rural Arkansas
The Arkansas Geriatric Education Collaborative (AGEC)’s Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program is partnering with a plethora of community based organizations (CBO) and with ARcare, an Arkansas federally qualified healthcare clinic network, to implement the 4Ms of age-friendly care in rural clinics....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7740745/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1778 |
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description | The Arkansas Geriatric Education Collaborative (AGEC)’s Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program is partnering with a plethora of community based organizations (CBO) and with ARcare, an Arkansas federally qualified healthcare clinic network, to implement the 4Ms of age-friendly care in rural clinics. Baseline clinical data related to the Age-Friendly 4M Framework has been gathered and quality improvement projects initiated to improve the outcomes. Initiatives to improve depression and cognitive screenings are addressing Mentation; fall prevention screens and the offering of fall prevention programs have been added for Mobility; high risk medication screens and chronic pain educational programs are being implemented to address Medications; and finally, Medicare Annual Wellness Visits is the cornerstone to improve what Matters to older adults. A campaign that involves partnered CBOs to address health literacy and increase involvement in evidence-based programs is also helping to drive improvements in age-friendly care in rural Arkansas. |
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spelling | pubmed-77407452020-12-21 Age-Friendly Initiatives and Primary Care in Rural Arkansas McAtee, Robin Tobey, Leah Innov Aging Abstracts The Arkansas Geriatric Education Collaborative (AGEC)’s Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program is partnering with a plethora of community based organizations (CBO) and with ARcare, an Arkansas federally qualified healthcare clinic network, to implement the 4Ms of age-friendly care in rural clinics. Baseline clinical data related to the Age-Friendly 4M Framework has been gathered and quality improvement projects initiated to improve the outcomes. Initiatives to improve depression and cognitive screenings are addressing Mentation; fall prevention screens and the offering of fall prevention programs have been added for Mobility; high risk medication screens and chronic pain educational programs are being implemented to address Medications; and finally, Medicare Annual Wellness Visits is the cornerstone to improve what Matters to older adults. A campaign that involves partnered CBOs to address health literacy and increase involvement in evidence-based programs is also helping to drive improvements in age-friendly care in rural Arkansas. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7740745/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1778 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts McAtee, Robin Tobey, Leah Age-Friendly Initiatives and Primary Care in Rural Arkansas |
title | Age-Friendly Initiatives and Primary Care in Rural Arkansas |
title_full | Age-Friendly Initiatives and Primary Care in Rural Arkansas |
title_fullStr | Age-Friendly Initiatives and Primary Care in Rural Arkansas |
title_full_unstemmed | Age-Friendly Initiatives and Primary Care in Rural Arkansas |
title_short | Age-Friendly Initiatives and Primary Care in Rural Arkansas |
title_sort | age-friendly initiatives and primary care in rural arkansas |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7740745/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1778 |
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