TFAH Policy Brief: Ensuring Age-Friendly Public Health in Rural Communities - Challenges, Opportunities, and Model Programs
Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) released a policy brief, "Ensuring Age-Friendly Public Health in Rural Communities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Model Programs."
Age-friendly communities are based on concepts of universal design, i.e., that systems and the social and built environment should be accessible to everyone. Creating age-friendly communities, while focused on the needs of older adults, helps create more accessible and equitable communities for everyone.
The brief discusses how fostering the health and well-being of older adults in rural communities requires a multi-sector approach and a recognition of the unique geographies, population distribution, and cultural norms within individual places. The role that public health professionals can play in promoting older adult health and well-being in rural communities based on the Age-Friendly Public Health Systems 6Cs framework is detailed in the policy brief.
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