Increasing the social participation of older rural residents: Opportunities offered by 'OPTEACH'

Clarissa Hughes; Maree Bernoth; Denise Winkler

doi:10.1111/ajr.12527

Increasing the social participation of older rural residents: Opportunities offered by 'OPTEACH'

Clarissa Hughes, Maree Bernoth, Denise Winkler

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Abstract

The issues addressed in this article are two-fold. Firstly, education about ageing is predominantly textbook based.Secondly, many rural older people face social isolation which impacts their health. In seeking to address the first issue, we discovered that our project, OPTEACH, positively impacted the second issue.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	317-321
Number of pages	5
Journal	Australian Journal of Rural Health
Volume	27
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12527
Publication status	Published - 28 Jun 2019

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