How 'age-friendly'are rural communities and what community characteristics are related to age-friendliness? The case of rural Manitoba, Canada

VH Menec, L Hutton, N Newall, S Nowicki, J Spina… - Ageing & …, 2015 - cambridge.org
… Although the notion of age-friendliness has … how age-friendly rural communities are in
Manitoba, a mid-Western Canadian province; and second, we examine whether age-friendliness

Lessons learned from a Canadian province-wide age-friendly initiative: The Age-Friendly Manitoba Initiative

VH Menec, S Novek, D Veselyuk… - Journal of Aging & Social …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
… Our evaluation framework was, in part, guided by the five-phase process proposed in the
Age-Friendly Rural/Remote Communities Guide developed in Canada under the sponsorship …

What community characteristics help or hinder rural communities in becoming age-friendly? Perspectives from a Canadian prairie province

J Spina, VH Menec - Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
… community from becoming age-friendly. We examine this question in the context of rural
Manitoba, a … the Age-Friendly Manitoba Initiative in 2008 as a way to encourage the promotion of …

Making rural communities age-friendly: Issues and challenges

V Menec, S Novek - Rural Gerontology, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
rural communities face in trying to become more age-friendly. We use the term “community”
here to refer to rural … The community consultations we conducted in Manitoba will serve as an …

Older adults' perceptions of age-friendly communities in Canada: A photovoice study

S Novek, VH Menec - Ageing & Society, 2014 - cambridge.org
… of age-friendliness. The … rural communities in the province of Manitoba, Canada.
Participants were provided with cameras and took photographs to illustrate the relative age-friendliness

An integrative review of the factors related to building agefriendly rural communities

S Neville, S Napier, J Adams, C Wham… - Journal of Clinical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… nine studies that focus on age-friendly rural communities. Eight of the nine studies reviewed
came out of Canada with six of those from the province of Manitoba. This is hardly surprising …

Developing rural insights for building age-friendly communities

E Russell, MW Skinner, A Colibaba - Journal of rural studies, 2021 - Elsevier
… of rural age-friendly program sustainability in a rich, detailed, complete, and rigorous manner
(Flyvbjerg, 2011), we undertook a case study analysis of five rural age-friendly programs in …

[PDF][PDF] Agefriendly communities in Manitoba

V Menec, C Button, A Blandford - … on Aging, University of Manitoba, 2008 - c4e.hkcss.org.hk
… type as per the Association of Manitoba Municipalities (rural municipality/local government
district … ) will complete the questionnaire to help make Manitoba as age-friendly as possible. …

Did we expect too much of rural age-friendly initiatives? Studying the sustainability and scope of a rural Canadian age-friendly program

E Russell, MW Skinner… - Journal of Rural and …, 2021 - journals.brandonu.ca
… , creating an imbalance between urban and rural age-friendly research. This paper addresses
the rural gap in understanding the limits of age-friendly initiatives by exploring, through …

[PDF][PDF] Age-friendly research publications

V Menec, S Bell, S Novek, GA Minnigaleeva… - J Aging Soc …, 2015 - academia.edu
… from becoming age-friendly in the context of rural Manitoba, a … influence rural communities’
ability to become age-friendly. … age-friendly and develop strategies to support communities. …