Lightning Talk

Kansas 4M: Advancing Evidence-based Care – Building an Age-friendly Workforce

Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Age-Friendly Health Systems (4Ms) frameworkeducation-practice partnershipsustainability

This lightning talk will explain the evidence-based Age-Friendly Health Systems (4Ms) framework (what matters, medication, mentation, and mobility), describe the Kansas 4M Geriatrics Workforce Education Program, and discuss the development of statewide reciprocal practice-education partnership to advance and sustain evidence-based care for older adults and their care partners and educate the current and future health, social, and direct care workforce to provide age-friendly and dementia-friendly care.