What is it about?
We take the US Environmental Protection Agency's definition of an Age-Friendly Community and show how to combine data from different sources to measure the four components.
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Why is it important?
Many local governments and Federal Area Agencies on Aging need to be able to measure progress towards creating age-friendly communities. Here's one way to do it.
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This page is a summary of: Conceptualizing Age-Friendly Community Characteristics in a Sample of Urban Elders: An Exploratory Factor Analysis, Journal of Gerontological Social Work, February 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01634372.2012.739267.
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