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

Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), with partnership and funding from The John A. Hartford Foundation, recently published a brief titled “Ensuring Age-Friendly Public Health in Rural Communities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Model Programs.” This brief, the second in a series of publications dealing with the health and wellness of older adults, outlines the status of older adults living in rural environments and opportunities for public health to support them. It highlights existing innovations that engage rural older adults and offers recommendations to ensure all older persons, regardless of geographic location, have access to age-friendly public health systems...