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Transforming Health Care for Older Adults as an Age-Friendly Health System

Older adults are living and working longer than any time in our history, redefining what life’s later stages look like.

Chair File: Age-Friendly Care that Supports Older Adults and Their Care Teams

Consider these statistics and the impact on health care: By 2035, the number of adults age 65 or older is expected to outnumber children under age 18 for the first time in U.S. history, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

HSR special issue on Age-Friendly Health Systems 

A new special issue of Health Services Research highlights cutting-edge research from experts in age-friendly care.

Putting Age-Friendly Care Principles into Action

Health care organizations receive free guidance on providing age-friendly care, part of the seven-month Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community led by the American Hospital Association

Chair File: Making Health Care ‘Age Friendly’ Is More Important Than Ever

One demographic in the U.S. that has been constant in recent years is the aging of the population.

Chair File: Building Age-Friendly Health Systems to Improve Care for Older Adults

Back in 2011, the first wave of Baby Boomers — people born from 1946 to 1964 — celebrated their 65th birthday. That marked a new demographic trend: the aging of the U.S. population.

Age-friendly health systems overview presented in AHA webinar

Across the country, hospitals, clinics and long-term care sites are becoming age-friendly health systems by implementing the 4Ms Framework — what matters, medications