Making Rural and Remote Communities More Age-Friendly: Experts' Perspectives of Issues, Challenges, and Priorities.

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, therefore, ideally embedded in larger age-friendly initiatives and supported by regional or national policies, programs, and funding sources. PMID: 25647697 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Rural Remote Health - February 3, 2015 Category: Rural Health Authors: Menec V, Bell S, Novek S, Minnigaleeva GA, Morales E, Ouma T, Parodi JF, Winterton R Tags: J Aging Soc Policy Source Type: research