5M of geriatric care

A holistic framework used in geriatric care: Mind, Mobility, Medication, Multicomplexity, Matters Most.

Advancing Frailty

Used to refer to older people whose frailty has progressed to a moderate or severe stage.

Compassionate communities

Defined as communities that actively work together to provide social, emotional and practical support.

Family

Defined as a wider social network around the older person. This can be close relatives, but also friends, neighbours and community connections.

Home

Defined as a space, not a place.

Interdependency

Defined as a state of interconnection with others, based on connectedness, mutuality and reciprocity.

Parallel planning

Defined as the possibility of multiple different outcomes.

Watchful waiting

Defined as an approach to care 
that engages assessment over time, but does not always require changes to intervention.

Policy and Society

Level 4

Awareness of policies and societal norms, and how they influence care

  • Awareness of the complexity of needs in ageing populations
  • Awareness of the influence and unfairness of inequities in access to care: Including race, gender, sexual orientation, geography and cultural
  • Awareness of societal attitudes to older people, death and dying
  • Awareness of policy levers and drivers: e.g., statutory right of end-of-life
    care for all; care closer to home