The 5 Ms of Geriatrics

Tips for Medications

reducing polypharmacy de-prescribing (the opportunity to stop unnecessary medications) prescribing treatments exactly for an older person's needs helping build awareness of harmful medication side effects (adverse reactions)

Tips for Multicomplexity

helping older adults manage a variety of health conditions assessing living conditions when they are impacted by age, health conditions, and social concerns

Tips for Matters Most

coordinating advance care planning helping manage goals of care making sure that a person's individual, personally meaningful health outcomes, goals, and care preferences are reflected in treatment plans

Tips for Mind

maintain mental activity help manage dementia help treat and prevent delirium work to evaluate and treat depression

each individual's own meaningful health outcome goals and care preferences

matters most

polypharmacy, de-prescribing, optimal prescribing, adverse medication effects and medication burden

medications

mentation, dementia, delirium, depression

mind

What are the 5 M's?

mind matters most multi-complexity mobility medications

impaired gait and balance, fall injury prevention

mobility

Ensure that older adults ____ safely ____ day in order to maintain ___ and do ___ ____

move every function What Matters

multi-morbidity, complex bio-psycho-social situations

multi-complexity

Describes the whole person typically an older adult, living with multiple chronic conditions, advanced illness, and/or with complicated biopsychosocial needs

multicomplexity