Videos

The Indigo 4Ms tools are conversation guides. They support primary health and social care practitioners and older people to talk about what helps older people live their best lives.

This page provides access to the range of videos that have been produced to support the use of the Indigo 4Ms tools for older people and health workers.

Indigo 4Ms in the community

These three videos describe the Indigo 4Ms guide for older people and how using the guide can help you have better conversations with your healthcare team.

How to have better conversations with your healthcare team

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This short video features Dick, Barbara and Dr Laura as they talk about the benefits of using the Indigo 4Ms Guide for Older People to prepare for healthcare appointments. They discuss 4 key areas of health and wellbeing – the 4 Ms.

When you and your healthcare team work together on these 4 areas, you can prevent, slow or even reverse common age-related difficulties.

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How to have better conversations with your healthcare team | Dick

90 sec version featuring Dick

This short video features Dick and Dr Laura as they talk about the benefits of using the Indigo 4Ms Guide for Older People to prepare for healthcare appointments.

The 4Ms are:

  • 1. What Matters most to you in your daily life
  • 2. Your Medications and how they're working for you
  • 3. Your Mobility – how well you're getting around and staying strong.
  • 4. Your Mental Wellbeing – how you're feeling.

When you and your healthcare team work together on these 4 areas, you can prevent, slow or even reverse common age-related difficulties.

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How to have better conversations with your healthcare team | Barbara

90 sec version featuring Barbara

This short video features Barbara and Dr Laura as they talk about the benefits of using the Indigo 4Ms Guide for Older People to prepare for healthcare appointments. They discuss 4 key areas of health and wellbeing – the 4 Ms.

When you and your healthcare team work together on these 4 areas, you can prevent, slow or even reverse common age-related difficulties.

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Indigo 4Ms in primary healthcare

These three videos describe the Indigo 4Ms tool for health workers, its benefits for health services, how it supports the provision of comprehensive care for older people, and how the tool can be adapted by clinicians.

Why it’s important for leaders to champion the Indigo 4Ms tool

This video is for board members, executive staff and managers. It introduces leaders to the Indigo 4Ms Tool, its benefits for their health service, and the importance of championing it.

How the Indigo 4Ms tool supports your work

This video is for Allied Health and other primary health and social care workers. It gives a general overview of the Indigo 4Ms tool and describes how you can adapt the tool to suit your work.

The Indigo 4Ms tool in action

This video demonstrates the use of the Indigo 4Ms tool in a consultation between a client and podiatrist. It aims to give executives, managers and primary health and social care workers confidence they can use and integrate the tool in their daily work

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