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The Geriatrics Approach to Care

The 5Ms

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The 5Ms are: what Matters, Medication, Mentation, Mobility, and Multimorbidity. It is a mnemonic to quickly express what value geriatrics and related specialties bring to the care of older adults. It is a way to explain what we do. A related framework evolved in parallel: the 4Ms, which are what Matters, Medication, Mentation, Mobility. The 4Ms underpin the Age-Friendly Health System movement. The straightforward simplicity of the 4Ms or 5Ms, whichever is chosen, has allowed it to catch fire across the country and driven the success of the Age-Friendly Health System movement. This chapter will review each domain and then provide a case of the development of an Age-Friendly Health System.

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  1. Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Anna H. Chodos

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  1. California Association of Long Term Care Medicine, Newbury Park, CA, USA

    Michael R. Wasserman

  2. Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Debra Bakerjian

  3. Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Colorado School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora, CO, USA

    Sunny Linnebur

  4. Division of Geriatrics, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Sharon Brangman

  5. Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Matteo Cesari

  6. Section of Geriatric Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai, Beverly Hills, CA, USA

    Sonja Rosen

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  1. California Association of Long Term Care Medicine, Newbury Park, CA, USA

    Michael R. Wasserman

  2. Department of Geriatrics, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA

    Sharon Brangman MD

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Chodos, A.H. (2023). The Geriatrics Approach to Care. In: Wasserman, M.R., Bakerjian, D., Linnebur, S., Brangman, S., Cesari, M., Rosen, S. (eds) Geriatric Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01782-8_1-1

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