Adapting & Advancing

Our 2025 Annual Report highlights how we are adapting to policy shifts, exploring new grantmaking approaches, and working with our grantees and partners to achieve significant progress in improving the care of older adults.

Hospitals: Apply for the Advancing Age-Friendly Care Collaborative

This free consulting and training program at Northwell Health will guide selected hospitals in advancing age-friendly care while studying the impact on patient satisfaction. Apply by June 22.

Submit Your Paper to NEJM Catalyst’s Age-Friendly Health Systems Special Issue

The journal is seeking manuscripts that assess real-world implementation, scaling and impact of the Age-Friendly Health Systems 4Ms Framework across care settings. Submit by June 1.

Age-Friendly Care and the 4Ms

Older adults and family caregivers can learn more about what age-friendly care is and how they can ask for it from their health care providers. The page is available in Spanish as well.

Age-Friendly Health Systems Initiative

A movement to help spread the reliable delivery of age-friendly care - based on the 4Ms framework (what Matters, Medication, Mentation, Mobility) - to all health care settings.