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Healthy Aging and Age-Friendly Community Initiatives

Author(s) -

Emily A. Greenfield

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

public policy and aging report

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2053-4892

pISSN - 1055-3037

DOI - 10.1093/ppar/prv002

Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , government (linguistics) , healthy aging , aging in place , white paper , action (physics) , political science , gerontology , public relations , psychology , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , physics , communication , quantum mechanics , law

The 2015 White House Conference on Aging identifies “creating and supporting communities that are age-friendly” as an important way to support health, vigor, and aging in place in the community. To continue to help translate this promising idea into effective action, this article seeks to summarize research, practice, and policy on community initiatives from the field of aging and beyond. It addresses questions regarding the ways in which communities can affect healthy aging, what age-friendly community initiatives (AFCIs) are, and an overview of past and potential efforts within the U.S. government to support community change processes on behalf of our rapidly aging society.

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