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