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Age-friendly rural communities
— conceptualizing best-fit | | Author(s) | Norah Keating, Jacquie Eales, Judith E Phillips |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 32, no 4, December 2013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, December 2013 |
| Pages | pp 319-332 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Rural areas ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The literature on age-friendly communities is predominantly focused on a model of urban aging, thereby failing to reflect the diversity of rural communities. In this article, the authors redress that gap by focusing on the concept of community in a rural context. They ask what makes a good fit between older people and their environment. They do this through autobiographical and biographical accounts of two very different geographical living environments: bucolic and bypassed communities. They also analyse the different needs and resources of two groups of people: marginalised and community-active older adults, who live in those two different rural communities. They argue that the original 2007 World Health Organization (WHO) definition of age-friendly should be reconceptualised to explicitly accommodate different community needs and resources, to be more inclusive as well as more interactive and dynamic, incorporating changes that have occurred over time in people and place. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150626288 A |
| Classmark | RH: RL: TOB: 7S |
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