MedStar Health: Center for Successful Aging in Baltimore

Individualized geriatric patient-centered care

Partnering with patients, as well as their family members and caregivers, the Center for Successful Aging provides individualized treatment plans that evolve with the patient’s changing needs—whether they receive care at home, the hospital, or a long-term care facility.

The practice has been designed with a patient’s comfort and convenience in mind. The team focuses on the unique needs of older adults who are experiencing multiple chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes, high or low blood pressure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), vascular disease, heart disease, or arthritis. It also provides care for geriatric syndromes, such as frailty, incontinence, memory loss, vision and hearing changes, or problems with balance or mobility.

Social and support concerns are addressed, including isolation, difficulty affording care on a fixed income, transportation and housing challenges, food insecurity, or need for information and connection to resources in the community.

The Center for Successful Aging is a participant in the Age-Friendly Health Systems Initiative of the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) – a multi-year initiative to improve how health systems provide care to older adults. Our person-centered care approach can help patients successfully age in all ways – physically and emotionally – while providing vital support to caregivers.