Age-friendly interventions in rural and remote areas: A scoping review.
Australas J Ageing
; 41(4): 490-500, 2022 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
In 2007, the World Health Organization published a guide on age-friendly cities. However, little is known about interventions that have been implemented to promote age-friendly communities in rural and remote areas. This paper presents the findings from a scoping review undertaken to locate available evidence of interventions, strategies, and programs that have been implemented in rural and remote areas to create age-friendly communities.METHODS:
This scoping review used the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology.RESULTS:
A total of 219 articles were included in this review. No intervention studies were referred to as 'age-friendly'. However, there were interventions (mostly healthcare-related) that have been implemented in rural and remote areas with older people as participants. There were also non-evaluated community programs that were published in the grey literature. This review identified the common health interventions in older people and the indirect relevance to the WHO age-friendly framework domains in rural and remote contexts.CONCLUSIONS:
The eight age-friendly domains were not explicitly utilised as a guide in the development of interventions for older people in rural and remote settings. Implementation of age-friendly interventions in rural and remote areas requires a multisectoral approach that is tailored to address the specific needs of individual communities. Age-friendly interventions also need to consider socio-ecological factors to adequately and holistically address community needs and ensure long-term sustainability.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Rural Population
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Delivery of Health Care
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
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Systematic_reviews
Aspects:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limits:
Aged
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Australas J Ageing
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Australia