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Defining a framework for age-friendly interventions
Author(s)	Allen Glicksman, Lauren Ring, Morton H Kleban
Journal title	Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 30, no 2, April-June 2016
Publisher	Taylor and Francis, April-June 2016
Pages	pp 175-184
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Urban areas ; Transport services ; Health services ; Services ; Quality of life ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Quantitative studies ; United States of America.
Annotation	Although there is no generally agreed upon definition of the term age friendly, almost all definitions share the same health related goals. Verena H Menec et al (Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 30, No 3, 2011, pp 479-493) have offered a conceptual framework defining age friendly as efforts to increase connectivity. In the present article, the authors' analysis was designed to test the hypothesis that targets of many age friendly efforts (food, housing, transport and social capital) are associated with these health outcomes. They discovered that the two areas associated with increasing connectivity, transportation and social capital, were associated with the age-friendly health related goals. They conclude that Menec's framework provides a useful way of defining age friendly interventions. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-160617215 A
Classmark	RH: RK: O: L: I: F:59: TOB: 3DQ: 7T
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