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Ensuring Age-Friendly Public Health in Rural Communities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Model Programs

14 Aug 2023

Collecting, analyzing, and translating relevant and Friendly Health Systems, and Age-Friendly Public Health robust data on older adults to identify the needs and Systems.2 This issue brief identifies opportunities for assets of a community and inform the development of public health professionals to engage, collaborate, and interventions through community-wide assessment. [...] to promote and support older adult health and well- Hartford Foundation, Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) being, including conducting and disseminating has been working with state and local health departments to research findings, and emerging and best practices to expand their roles in improving the health and well-being support healthy aging. [...] It activities, and community health worker trainings to improve highlights existing innovations that engage rural older the health of older adults living in rural areas and presents adults and offers recommendations to ensure all older additional opportunities to promote the Age-Friendly Public persons, regardless of geographic location, have access to Health Systems movement in rural communities. [...] The goal of federal in counts of rural facilities from 1,887 to a total of 1,80556 and support of RHC is to augment the delivery of primary closure rates accelerated during the pandemic, with a record care in rural communities. [...] Our goal National Rural Health Association is a modernized public health system that advances health equity for all and is prepared to respond to a wide-variety of State Offices of Rural Health health threats with policies and programs that are inclusive, community appropriate, and evidence-based.

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