New report on the Rural Elderly from Rural Services Network

Key findings from the report include:

• Increasing difficulties in accessing services
• Levels of relative poverty similar to urban areas
• Decreasing funding for social care
• Reliance on informal care by family
• Wide geographical variations in health funding
• High incidence of loneliness
• Little information on crime, neglect or abuse

See full report

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