Bringing Future-Ready Care Closer to You

We are an Age-Friendly Health Systems Participant recognised by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).

A Milestone in Our Journey Towards Future-Ready Care

We are honoured to be recognised as an Age-Friendly Health Systems Participant by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). With this, we join an international group of more than 5,200 health systems working to tailor care to patients’ goals and preferences and deliver consistently high-quality care.

This recognition affirms our ongoing work to care for older patients through the 4Ms: What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility.
 

Across TTSH, this shows up in practical ways:

  • Personalised headboards that help teams understand what matters to patients
  • Medication reviews that support safer prescribing
  • Delirium care to detect confusion early
  • Mobility protocols that help older patients keep moving safely

It also builds on years of geriatric care work, including our Geriatric Emergency Medicine nurses, who assess and support older patients with age-related needs at the Emergency Department, and our 2023 NICHE Exemplar recognition, the highest level awarded by an international programme recognising excellence in nursing care for older adults.

This is what Future-Ready Care looks like: many teams making consistent decisions every day to help older patients recover safely, maintain function and continue living the life that matters to them.

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Care that Speaks to You

 

Age-friendly care comes alive in everyday moments: listening in a patient’s preferred language, remembering what matters, encouraging safe movement, supporting calm and connection, and reviewing medicines carefully. 

 

Guided by the 4Ms: What Matters, Mobility, Mentation and Medication, these small actions help older patients recover safely, maintain function, and stay connected to the life that matters to them. 

 

As an Age-Friendly Health Systems Participant recognised by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), TTSH is part of a global movement that puts older adults’ goals, preferences and wellbeing at the centre of care. In practice, this means making consistent, person-centred decisions every day, helping older patients recover safely, maintain independence and continue living the life that matters to them. 

 

Small actions. Meaningful care.