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Ensuring Age|Friendly Public Health in Rural Communities


A Strategic Framework for a National Plan on Aging

116–131, enacted March 25, 2020) authorized the creation of the Interagency Coordinating. Committee on Healthy Aging and Age-Friendly Communities (ICC) to ...

Growing Divide: Rural Men Are Living Shorter, Less Healthy Lives ...

Rural areas are more likely than urban ones to have shortages of healthcare providers and are aging faster as younger residents move to cities, ...

How Mississippi Is Changing Public Health

The launch of the AFPHS initiative was seen as a natural extension of the Age-Friendly Health Systems, since the patients in health care systems had critical ...

State Plan - Illinois Department on Aging

health and reduce longstanding disparities in health and health care. Continue statewide expansion of Age-Friendly communities. The FY 2022 - FY 2024 State ...

Future-Proofing Rural Health: Navigating Ageing Demographics

The ageing demographic trend in rural areas has profound implications or healthcare provision and social services. The high proportion of older ...

RESEARCH REPORT - ASPE - HHS.gov

to the importance of addressing other factors that can affect health outcomes in rural areas such as social ... Rural Communities: Age, Income, ...

Rethinking Rural Health - AAMC Research and Action Institute

Developing and enacting policies tailored to specific problems and populations may more effectively improve the health status of rural ...

Rural age‐friendly ecosystems for older adults: An international ...

The population of older adults in rural areas is rising, and they experience higher rates of poverty and chronic illness, have poorer health ...

Transforming Health Care for Older Adults as an Age-Friendly ...

An Age-Friendly Health System is one in which every older adult's care is guided by an essential set of evidence-based practices known as the 4Ms.

Aligning the Health Care and Public Health Sectors to Improve Age ...

Understanding and aligning care with each older adult's health goals and preferences (What Matters) is an essential part of providing age- ...

Advancing Rural Health Equity | CMS

live in rural areas, comprising almost a quarter of rural Americans under age 65.58 In FY 2022,. CMS took strategic steps through the ...

Strengthening the Rural Health Workforce to Improve Health ... - HRSA

health of the rural communities unless the social determinants of health ... Rural communities: Age, income, and health status, in Rural Healht.

Improving health in rural areas is within our collective reach

Without action, the viability of our system and health care for tens of millions of patients in every setting is needlessly put at risk, and the ...

Announcement - Age-Friendly Health Series - Health Affairs

Models for integrating physical and behavioral health care · Substance use disorders among older adults and best approaches to care · New models of hospice and ...

Rural Health During the Pandemic: Challenges and Solutions to ...

Rural areas often face unique characteristics that put residents at increased risk of death, including older age, reduced access to health care, further ...

calling rural Appalachian older adults during the COVID-19 epidemic

Rural seniors rely on community health centers, the rare local private provider, and local health departments for their health care. They are hesitant to use ...

Healthier Rural Communities are Within Our Reach

It is essential for continued public policy support for educational outreach, strengthening and expansion of health care facilities and services, and rural ...

Age-Friendly World - Extranet Systems

The Directorate-General of Health (DGS) has, within the scope of Active and Healthy Ageing, a remarkable track record in the development of programmes. The ...

Enhancing Accessibility via Telehealth for Older Adults in Rural Areas

A recent report titled Helping Older Adults Age Well in Rural America by the Commonwealth Fund identified that organizations such as Lutheran ...

Health Equity Challenges in Rural America - American Bar Association

A significant rural-urban disparity in life expectancy exists in the United States. Part of the challenge in understanding and improving the health of rural ...