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As a greater number of older adults prefer to age-in-place, community-based approaches provide an opportunity to address the complex medical and social needs of older adults, and to promote healthy lifestyles and preventative care. Older adults often desire to receive more education to understand their medical conditions and manage health outcomes. Additionally, older adults and their providers often seek help for planning for the future and managing the multiple chronic conditions often associated with aging. The Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) movement is a framework designed to provide quality care to older adults by focusing on four domains called the 4Ms: Medication, Mobility, Mentation, and What Matters. While educational content on the 4Ms has primarily focused on providers within the context of a healthcare system, an interest in adapting this framework for the community is emerging. Engaging older adults and their caregivers in this framework can ensure that every older adult gets the best care possible, is not harmed by health care, and is satisfied with the care they receive. We sought to design a novel remote learning-capable curriculum for community-dwelling older adults and their caregivers that focused on the 4Ms, known as the 4Ms Forum. Creating a community education curriculum for an urban community that is diverse racially, socioeconomically, and in educational attainment requires a community feedback-informed methodology to ensure that the educational content is relevant and that the educational strategies are appropriate. In this paper, we describe our curriculum design process, which utilized a community feedback-informed methodology.