Indigo 4Ms Framework
The Indigo 4Ms Framework brings together evidence-based guidelines in four interconnected areas:
- What matters
- Medication
- Mobility
- Mental wellbeing
Action in these four areas can prevent, slow, or even reverse common age-related difficulties in hearing, seeing, moving, and remembering, enabling older people to continue to flourish and participate in community life.
The Indigo 4Ms tool
The Indigo 4Ms tool is intended for older people living in rural or regional communities who wish to discover a new way of considering their health and wellbeing, and their conversations with their health team.
What is it?
The tool is a series of questions or prompts that can guide older people to make a personalised plan that, when put into practice, can help maintain or improve their everyday health and wellbeing. Using the tool in meetings with their health team can also enable older people to be better equipped to participate fully in conversations with the healthcare team.
When is it used?
Using the tool in meetings with their health team can also enable older people to be better equipped to participate fully in conversations with the healthcare team.
For more details see the tool’s pdf document the on the website for Age-Friendly North East Victoria.
This is from a series of projects is currently being run under the AFNEV banner. Each project is aimed at improving rural community and health system capacity to support age-friendly health care using the Indigo 4Ms Framework.