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Making rural and remote communities more age-friendly
— experts' perspectives on issues, challenges, and priorities | | Author(s) | Verena Menec, Sheri Bell, Sheila Novek |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Social Policy, vol 27, no 2, April-June 2015 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, April-June 2015 |
| Pages | pp 173-191 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Rural areas ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Policy ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | With the growing interest worldwide in making communities more age-friendly, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the factors that help or hinder communities in attaining this goal. The focus of this article is rural and remote communities. The authors present perspectives of 42 experts in the areas of ageing, rural and remote issues policies who participated in a consensus conference on age-friendly rural and remote communities. Discussions highlighted that strengths in rural and remote communities, such as easy access to local leaders and existing partnerships, can help to further age-friendly goals. However, addressing major challenges, such as lack of infrastructure and limited availability of social and health services requires regional or national government buy-in and funding opportunities. Age-friendly work in rural and remote communities is ideally embedded in larger age-friendly initiatives and supported by regional or national policies, programmes, and funding sources. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150710208 A |
| Classmark | RL: TOB: QAD: TM2 |
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