Older People and Rural Issues

This project summary publication uses learning from Rural Wisdom project and may help you identify key policy drivers to support rural communities.

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Key Reflections:

• Policies that are relevant to older people and rural communities are increasingly taking a rights-based, strength-based approach to older people’s wellbeing.
• They recognise the importance of co-production and local communities’ contribution to decision making and service design and/or provision.
• There is relatively little about older people in rural communities specifically.
• Much of the rural legislation is concerned with the economy, planning and the physical environment, rather than how people live in local communities.
• Approaches to supporting and sustaining rural communities in Wales and Scotland have often been led by the availability of EU funding programmes.