What Can We Use to Measure Age-Friendly Community Characteristics?

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I have extensive experience in community economic development as well as advanced training in data analysis about places. My colleagues Amanda Lehning and Ruth Dunkle are gerontologists with close ties to the practice community. We did a set of three papers together using data collected by Dr. Dunkle and our colleagues at the Wayne State University Institute of Gerontology. The first journal we sent it to rejected it saying that they would not publish an exploratory factor analysis without a confirmatory factor analysis. We recognized that in an ideal world one would do that, but we did not have any prior research to guide hypotheses about the factor structure. The next journal accepted it with minor revisions and we later won a best paper prize for this article.

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