Age-Friendly Health System

Transforming Care for Older Adults

Our team at the Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center and the University of Rochester Aging Institute have compiled these resources to assist you and your organization in learning more about Age-Friendly Health System (AFHS) movement, how to earn the Level 1 or Level 2 AFHS certification, and where to find peer-reviewed publications.

Resources

• Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Age Friendly Health Systems: Join the Movement
• The John A. Hartford Foundation: Age-Friendly Health Systems: Older adults have unique needs
• FAQs - AFHS - GWEP Coordinating Center 2019 (PDF)
• Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing #35 - AFHS: The 4Ms - Fulmer et al., 2019 (PDF)
• Oral Health Case Study - Eastman Institute for Oral Health and GWEP CC, 2023 (PDF)
• What Matters to Me - fillable workbook - English - Conversation Project (PDF)
• Worksheet to incorporate the 4Ms and AFHS (PDF)

Publications

• Allen, K., & Ouslander, J. G. (2018). Age-friendly health systems: Their time has come. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 66, 19-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.15134
• Arany, S., Caprio, T. V., Medina-Walpole, A., & Eliav, E. (2024). Towards oral healthy aging: integrating oral health into age-friendly health systems through interprofessional collaboration. Quintessence International, 55(2), 88-89. https://doi.org/10.3290/j.qi.b5031229
• Arany, S., Cavalcanti, L., Phildor, D., Watson, G. E., Kopycka-Kedzierawski, D. T., Eliav, E., Medina-Walpole, A., & Caprio, T. V. (2024). Implementation of a 4Ms approach in age-friendly oral health care at an academic specialty care dental clinic. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 72 Suppl 3, S68–S75. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18925
• Arany, S., Eliav, E., Medina-Walpole, A., & Caprio, T. V. (2023). Postgraduate dental resident education: A pilot in age-friendly "mentation" training. Special Care in Dentistry, 43(6), 765–771. https://doi.org/10.1111/scd.12871
• Caprio, T. V. (2018). Foreword clinical education in geriatrics: Innovative and trusted approaches leading workforce transformation in making health care more age-friendly. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 39(2), 120-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/02701960.2018.1464789
• Fulmer, T., Mate, K. S., & Berman, A. (2018). The age-friendly health system imperative. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 66, 22-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.15076
• Fulmer, T., Patel, P., Levy, N., Mate, K., Berman, A., Pelton, L., Beard, J., Kalache, A., & Auerbach, J. (2020). Moving toward a global age-friendly ecosystem. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 68, 1936-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16675
• Wang, J., Shen, J. Y., Conwell, Y., Podsiadly, E. J., Caprio, T. V., Nathan, K., Yu, F., Ramsdale, E. E., Fick, D. M., Mixon, A. S., & Simmons, S. F. (2023). How "age-friendly" are deprescribing interventions? A scoping review of deprescribing trials. Health Services Research, 58 Suppl 1, 123–138. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14083
• Wetle, T. T. (2020). Age-friendly ecosystems: An aspirational goal. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 68, 1929-1930. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16676

Contact Us

If you wish to recommend additional resources, email URFLGEC@urmc.rochester.edu