Age-Friendly Care

The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center’s Home Based Primary Care Clinic achieved Level 1 Age-Friendly Health Systems designation on April 27, 2021. The clinic is part of a movement to improve health care for older adults, contributing to a goal of 20% of U.S. hospitals and health systems becoming age-friendly by 2020. As part[…]

Partner clinics of the Southeast Texas Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (SE Texas GWEP) at Baylor College of Medicine have joined more than 1,900 hospitals and healthcare practices nationwide, working to improve care for older adults through the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative. Family Medicine clinics at Upper Kirby, River Oaks, and Texas Medical Center including Baylor[…]