Leading the Charge in Age-Friendly Care at Home
As the first community-based organization to offer the Age-Friendly Care at Home Certification, CHAP partners with top-tier organizations to lead the way in transforming your organization, patient care, and outcomes with the 4Ms Framework—What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility.
Stand Out as a Top Referral Destination
By becoming Age-Friendly certified with CHAP, you join an elite group of pioneers dedicated to the highest standards of care for older adults. This certification sets you apart, showcasing your commitment to excellence and innovation in patient care. When you put your patients’ needs first, you’ll always be their first choice.
The Impact of Age-Friendly Care
Experience the power of Age-Friendly Care, a movement that elevates patient care and enhances operational efficiency.
Age-Friendly Care helps achieve:
- Better healthcare outcomes for older adults
- Reduced waste associated with inferior quality of services not properly designed
- Greater use of cost-effective services for the population
- Enhanced reputation and increased market share to service the increase in aging populations
- Higher levels of patient and clinician satisfaction
- Improvements in recruiting and staff retention
Demonstrate value to your patients and referral partners, showcase your commitment to excellence, and connect with more than 3,000 health systems.
The Essential 4Ms of Age-Friendly Care
What Matters
Know and align care with each older adult’s specific health outcome goals and care preferences including, but not limited to, end-of-life care, and across settings of care.
Medication
If medication is necessary, use Age-Friendly medication that does not interfere with What Matters to the older adult, Mobility, or Mentation across settings of care.
Mentation
Prevent, identify, treat, and manage dementia, depression, and delirium across settings of care.
Mobility
Ensure that older adults move safely every day in order to maintain function and do What Matters.
Earn an Age-Friendly Care at Home Certification
Impact clinician satisfaction and retention, reduce cost of care, and align with quality referral sources without a costly investment.
1
Apply
Select the Age-Friendly Care option during the accreditation application. No additional cost if added to ongoing accreditation; a small fee for adding to existing accreditation.
2
Review
Utilize the resources, standards, and learning modules. (The learning modules can be downloaded and used in your company’s LMS free of charge).
3
Site Visit
Inspection of 4Ms framework and CHAP Age-Friendly Care at Home Standards during accreditation or additional site visit if already accredited.
4
Market
Use your Credly Age-Friendly Care at Home Digital Badge and Certificate to market your certification and connect with 3000 health systems.
Getting Ready for Surfing the Age Wave
Explore our infographic series designed to help healthcare providers deliver care that meets the unique needs of older adults, anchored in the 4Ms framework: What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility.
Your Age-Friendly Care at Home Toolkit
Dive into a wealth of resources designed to deepen your understanding of Age-Friendly Care at Home and guide you through the certification process. Whether you prefer listening, watching, or reading, we have the right tools for you.
Blogs
Podcasts
Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) Launches Age-Friendly Care at Home Certification with Accreditation
CHAP Releases Home Health Standards and Resources for Age-Friendly Care
Initiative Focused Strategies Create Alignment and Growth for Home Health & Hospice Agencies
The Case for Providing Age-Friendly Care in the Home
The Growing Demand for Age-Friendly Care in the United States
The 4Ms Framework for Age-Friendly Care
CHAP Awarded Prestigious Age-Friendly Health Systems Funding
Homecare Homebase: The Role of Software and Age-Friendly Approaches in Personalizing Healthcare
Age-Friendly Care Implementation
How Age-Friendly Care Can Grow Your Business
Why Age-Friendly Care Certification is Critical
What is Age-Friendly Care?
Age-Friendly Care Education
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Founding Community Advisory Group
Robert Parker, DNP, RN, CENP, CHPN, CHP
Chief Clinical Officer, Chief Compliance Office
Kelley R. Hill, MSN RN
Executive Director of Compliance & Clinical Services
Tammy Ross, MHA, BSN, CCM, RN
Senior Vice President of Professional Services
Anne Johnson, MA
Division Director, Regulatory Support & Guidance
Katie Wehri
Director of Home Health & Hospice Regulatory Affairs
Anna Loengard MD
Chief Medical Officer
LaNita Knoke RN, BS, CMCN
Vice President Clinical Excellence
Vicki Hoak
Chief Executive Officer
Bud Langham PT, MBA
EVP of Clinical Excellence and Strategy
Rosemary Parker, RN, FAACM, CCRN, WCC, LNC-C
Director of Patient Care Services
Beth Rubio, RN
Chief Clinical Officer
Judi Lund Person, MPH, CHC
Vice President, Regulatory and Compliance
Maxine Hochhauser
President Home and Community Based Services
Laura Templeton, MBA RN Chief Clinical Operations Officer
Jen Hale, MSN RN CHPN Vice President of Clinical Quality and Standards
Margherita C. Labson, BSN, MSHSA, CCM, CPHQ
Strategic Advisor
“We are proud to be the first in-home care company to earn the prestigious Age-Friendly Care at Home Certification from CHAP. Our commitment to expanding certified sites nationwide demonstrates our focus on placing clients at the center of our care. Age-Friendly Care ensures we address what matters most to our clients and tailor our support to their needs. By embracing these practices, we provide compassionate, individualized care that enhances our clients’ quality of life and reinforces home care as a vital part of the healthcare continuum.”
Mari Baxter, Chief Operating Officer, Senior Helpers
“Achieving Age-Friendly Care at Home certification reaffirms the work Compassus does every day to provide hospice care that focuses on a person’s all-encompassing needs. We are encouraged by the expansion of these standards to home-based care and honored to be distinguished as an Age-Friendly Care at Home provider at a time when more people are choosing to receive care in their home environments.”
– Jennifer Hale, VP of Clinical Quality and Standards, Compassus
“We are proud to be at the forefront of bringing the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement to home-based care. While we’ve always focused on delivering evidence-based, patient-centered care, this movement provides a clear framework on how to incorporate these elements into our standards of care in a way that benefits our patients, clinicians, referral sources and payors.”
Bud Langham, Executive VP of Clinical Excellence and Strategy, Enhabit
“We are proud to be the first in-home care company to earn the prestigious Age-Friendly Care at Home Certification from CHAP. Our commitment to expanding certified sites nationwide demonstrates our focus on placing clients at the center of our care. Age-Friendly Care ensures we address what matters most to our clients and tailor our support to their needs. By embracing these practices, we provide compassionate, individualized care that enhances our clients’ quality of life and reinforces home care as a vital part of the healthcare continuum.”
Mari Baxter, Chief Operating Officer, Senior Helpers