a Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences , University of Manitoba , Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada.
J Aging Soc Policy. 2015;27(2):173-91. doi: 10.1080/08959420.2014.995044. Epub 2015 Feb 3.
With the growing interest worldwide in making communities more age-friendly, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the factors that help or hinder communities in attaining this goal. In this article, we focus on rural and remote communities and present perspectives of 42 experts in the areas of aging, rural and remote issues, and policy who participated in a consensus conference on age-friendly rural and remote communities. 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.
随着全球对使社区更适合老年人居住的兴趣日益浓厚，了解有助于或阻碍社区实现这一目标的因素变得越来越重要。本文重点关注农村和偏远社区，并介绍了 42 名在老龄化、农村和偏远地区问题以及政策领域的专家的观点，他们参加了一次关于农村和偏远社区友好老龄化的共识会议。讨论强调，农村和偏远社区的优势，如更容易接触到当地领导人和现有伙伴关系，可以帮助进一步实现友好老龄化的目标；然而，解决基础设施不足和社会及卫生服务有限等重大挑战，需要得到地区或国家政府的认可和资金支持。因此，农村和偏远社区的友好老龄化工作最好嵌入到更大的友好老龄化倡议中，并得到地区或国家政策、项目和资金来源的支持。
