Every VHA Health Care System now includes at least one team recognized as an Age-Friendly Health System.
VA’s Office of Research and Development published three News Briefs highlighting research advances on brain-computer interfaces, a potential new lymphoma treatment and the benefits of age-friendly care.
Age-friendly summit brought VA experts together to ensure VA healthcare supports older Veterans.
The Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative is helping hospitals and other care settings implement interventions specifically designed to improve care for older adults. Birmingham VA is leading the way.
Age-friendly care played a large role in Veteran going from being bedbound to independent.
SCOUTS is a care transition program that leverages ICTs to ensure at-risk Veterans receive comprehensive care after emergency visits.
The SCOUTS program addresses the four M’s of an age-friendly health system: mobility, mentation (mental activity), medication and what matters.
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