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Age-Friendly Health Systems in an Ecosystem Perspective

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The term “age-friendly” was coined in 2006 by the World Health Organization as they launched the Age-Friendly Cities initiative, and since that time, there have been a series of initiatives using the term to reflect special programming and measures that can be identified in each. In this chapter, the initiatives are described with the goal of aligning these efforts to improve the health and healthcare of older adults.

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  1. The John A. Hartford Foundation, New York, NY, USA

    Terry Fulmer, Jinghan Zhang & Wendy Huang

  2. Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, MA, USA

    Leslie Pelton

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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

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Fulmer, T., Pelton, L., Zhang, J., Huang, W. (2023). Age-Friendly Health Systems in an Ecosystem Perspective. 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_122-1

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