Responding to Local Needs by Mobilizing Community Assets: Age-Friendly Community Initiatives during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Age-friendly community initiatives (AFCIs) strive to make localities better for long and healthy lives by fostering improvements across social, physical, and service environments. Despite the heightened need for community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic, very little research has addressed the work of AFCIs in the context of this crisis. We aimed to develop theory on how AFCI core groups have contributed to community responses during the pandemic, as well as what contexts have influenced the initiatives' ability to contribute.

Research design and methods

As part of a multi-year, community-partnered study on the development of philanthropically supported initiatives in northern New Jersey, we conducted qualitative interviews with eight AFCI core

SUBMITTER: Greenfield EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9384139 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature