As people are living longer, it will be important for public health to continue to address the need for age-friendly communities to best serve the aging population. For this assignment, you will dive deeper into evaluating the key concepts and specific characteristics of age-friendly communities. After reviewing the module readings and videos, you will use course materials and other resources to answer each of the assignment questions.
INSTRUCTIONS
Consider the characteristics and benefits of age-friendly communities. Analyze how public health strategies are used to create an age-friendly community. Describe one real-life age-friendly community and what makes it so.
Open a blank MS Word Document. Copy and paste the below prompts into your Word document.
Answer each prompt with at least two paragraphs including three to eight complete sentences per paragraph at a minimum.
What are the benefits of an age-friendly community to the aging population?
What are the characteristics of an age-friendly community?
What are the strategies needed to create an age-friendly community?
Research online some examples of real-life age-friendly communities in the United States. Select one and describe what makes it an age-friendly community.
GUIDELINES
Submit a Word document with your responses to each of the questions.
Each question should have at least two paragraphs with 3-8 complete sentences per paragraph.
You must cite at least three references to support your answers. At least one of your references should not be from the provided course materials.
Cite your resources using APA formatLinks to an external site..
Visit the UTA LibraryLinks to an external site. to identify additional references for your research.
A rubric provides the criteria for points and how you are graded. Review it before starting this assignment.
This assignment must be your original work. Please do not copy and paste sentences or paragraphs from any resource, even if you include a citation, it is considered plagiarism to not write in your own words. Submissions are reviewed by TurnItIn plagiarism checker. Your similarity index must be below 25%.
The questions will match in your document but I can eliminate these in your similarity score.