Including Youth in an Aging Society

Age-friendly Communities, Community and Economic Development and Transformation

2010

By Laura Ryser, Don Manson, and Greg Halseth

This presentation explores gaps impeding the development and capacity of youth to respond to rural change.  We begin by reviewing the impacts of rural restructuring, as well as the important role of youth in community renewal.  We then draw our attention to key gaps impeding the development of human and social capital assets amongst our next generation of community builders.