How Local Interventions Can Build Capacity to Address Social Isolation in Dispersed Rural Communities: A Case Study from Northern Ireland

Ageing International

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 475-491

  Heenan, Deirdre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active ageing; Capacity building; Community; Rural; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80955136950     PISSN: 01635158     EISSN: 1936606X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12126-010-9095-7     Document Type: Review

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