TY - JOUR
T1 - Approaches to Serving Rural Older Adults in State Plans on Aging
T2 - A Policy Content Evaluation
AU - Henning-Smith, Carrie
AU - Powell, Mary Anne
AU - Lahr, Megan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - Every state is required to submit a State Plan on Aging describing how it will use resources from the Older Americans Act (OAA), including a section specific to serving rural older adults. This paper describes a policy content evaluation of all 50 State Plans on Aging, focusing on Section 307(a)(10), which describes how states will serve rural older adults. We identified the most common and innovative approaches to using OAA funds to serve rural older adults across states. The most common information included about using OAA funds to serve rural older adults was describing the funding formula used to allocate resources. However, states varied in their definition of rural and in the details of their funding formulas. A minority of states also described additional approaches to serving rural older adults, including prioritizing Black, Indigenous, or rural residents of color; outreach; and targeted service delivery.
AB - Every state is required to submit a State Plan on Aging describing how it will use resources from the Older Americans Act (OAA), including a section specific to serving rural older adults. This paper describes a policy content evaluation of all 50 State Plans on Aging, focusing on Section 307(a)(10), which describes how states will serve rural older adults. We identified the most common and innovative approaches to using OAA funds to serve rural older adults across states. The most common information included about using OAA funds to serve rural older adults was describing the funding formula used to allocate resources. However, states varied in their definition of rural and in the details of their funding formulas. A minority of states also described additional approaches to serving rural older adults, including prioritizing Black, Indigenous, or rural residents of color; outreach; and targeted service delivery.
KW - Older Americans Act
KW - policy
KW - rural
KW - states
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U2 - 10.1177/07334648221104085
DO - 10.1177/07334648221104085
M3 - Article
C2 - 35590465
AN - SCOPUS:85130930162
SN - 0733-4648
JO - Journal of Applied Gerontology
JF - Journal of Applied Gerontology
ER -