The Age-Friendly ICU

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

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  Lauren Ferrante, MD, MHS (she/her/hers)

  Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
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  Matthew Mart, MD, MSCI

  Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.

In January 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented a new Age-Friendly Hospital Structural Measure as part of its Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program. The measure is intended to improve care for older adults by encouraging hospitals to adopt age-friendly practices that focus on the 4Ms framework (What Matters, Medications, Mentation, and Mobility). Hospitals are required to report their adherence to this measure, including assessing goals, managing medications responsibly, implementing frailty screening and interventions, determining social vulnerability, and designating age-friendly leadership. This new measure provides more subjectivity than other IQR measures. Hospitals around the country are determining how best to meet this measure. This session will discuss the importance of the measure to hospitalized older adults and best practices for implementing the measure in critical care and emergency settings.

Presentations:

• 3:50 PM - 4:05 PM Central Time

  The Experience of Critical Illness as an Older Adult: The Patient’s Perspective
  

  Barbara Stahl – Yale New Haven Hospital

  Richard S. Stahl, MD – Quinnipiac University
• 4:05 PM - 4:20 PM Central Time

  Implementing the 4Ms as a Clinician in the Inpatient Setting: A Geriatrician’s Perspective
  

  Thomas Gill, MD (he/him/his)
• 4:20 PM - 4:35 PM Central Time

  Practical Implementation of the 4Ms at the Bedside: A Critical Care Nurse’s Perspective
  

  Leanne Boehm, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University