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In 2015, the Mayor of Sellia, a small town in the Calabria Region of Southern Italy, ordered all of its elderly citizens to keep healthy because migrating youth and a… Click to show full abstract
In 2015, the Mayor of Sellia, a small town in the Calabria Region of Southern Italy, ordered all of its elderly citizens to keep healthy because migrating youth and a lack of jobs saw its population decrease dramatically over the past few years – the elderly citizens were the only thing keeping the village alive! The Mayor’s approach is a strategic move in a country which has Europe’s largest proportion of citizens aged over 65 years and where an ongoing concern is the issue of ‘non-self-sufficiency’ due to economic and social considerations.
Keywords:
active ageing;
social prescriptions;
precision social;
promote active;
ageing older;
prescriptions promote
Journal Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
Year Published: 2020
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Journal Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
Year Published: 2020
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