My Health Checklist is designed to help older adults get the most out of their medical appointments. This guide helps you think through all aspects of your health — what’s going well, what could be better and your questions or concerns.

These booklets from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery, a collaborative program to enhance the recovery of surgical patients, can help adult patients prepare for and recover from surgery both in the hospital and at home.

Designed by health literacy experts with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Ask Me 3 is an educational program intended to help patients become more active members of their health care team by encouraging them to ask three specific questions of their providers to better understand their health conditions.

The US population aged 65+ years is expected to nearly double over the next 30 years. Age-Friendly Health Systems, an initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and others, is designed to confront the challenge of providing evidence-based, quality health care to this demographic.

This guide from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) details how the use of the 4Ms — What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility — by health systems can make care of older adults, which can be complex, more manageable.

An initiative of the ABIM Foundation to help patients engage their health care provider in conversations and empower them to ask questions about what tests and procedures are right for them.