EP03: Age-Friendly Health Systems Interview with Dr. Terry Fulmer

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Age-friendly health systems are systems where people are thinking about you and what your care needs are. In this week's episode, Melissa Batchelor talks about age-friendly health systems with her special guest, Dr. Terry Fulmer, the President of the John A. Hartford Foundation, that funds the HAPF.</span></p> <p><strong>Part One of ‘Age-Friendly Health Systems Interview with Dr. Terry Fulmer’</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In case you're wondering how this idea originated, according to Dr. Terry, they are scaling in a way that they couldn't have imagined. They're now in fifty states after only two years. It's because people understand that they want age-friendly care. They want the kind of care that's responsive to their needs and that speaks to them.</span></p> <p><strong><em>“We have created an incredible wealth of content for anybody who wants to get on the journey with age-friendly health systems.” — Melissa Batchelor (05:35-05:44)</em></strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Terry sees care where the handoffs are not. She sees what they could be and describes all of their work as evidence-based. They are focused on disease-specific conversations. This is not necessarily the best way to think about older people who have three to five chronic diseases and are managing multiple complex medications.</span></p> <p><strong>Part Two of ‘Age-Friendly Health Systems Interview with Dr. Terry Fulmer’</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Dr. Terry became President and CEO of the Johnny Hartford foundation, she was asked what her significant contribution would be. She wanted to create age-friendly health systems. Since 2015, it's something she has been unpacking and organizing a conversation with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.</span></p> <p><strong><em>“You can't be an age-friendly community unless you have an age-friendly health system within you, your catchment area.” —  Melissa Batchelor (10:53-11:00)</em></strong></p> <p><span sty