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.
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.
Experience the power of Age-Friendly Care, a movement that elevates patient care and enhances operational efficiency.
Age-Friendly Care helps achieve:
Demonstrate value to your patients and referral partners, showcase your commitment to excellence, and connect with more than 3,000 health systems.
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.
Impact clinician satisfaction and retention, reduce cost of care, and align with quality referral sources without a costly investment.
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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.
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Utilize the resources, standards, and learning modules. (The learning modules can be downloaded and used in your company’s LMS free of charge).
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Inspection of 4Ms framework and CHAP Age-Friendly Care at Home Standards during accreditation or additional site visit if already accredited.
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Use your Credly Age-Friendly Care at Home Digital Badge and Certificate to market your certification and connect with 3000 health systems.
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.
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.
Add Age-Friendly Care at Home certification to your existing accreditation (small fee may apply if outside of survey window).
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“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