Development of a Volunteer Transportation Program to Support Age-Friendly Rural Communities
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https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe-2024-0016Keywords:
rural population, volunteer transportation service, logic model, health inequities, program development, healthy agingAbstract
This research note illustrates our evaluation approaches in facilitating the development of the program scope and action plan of an existing volunteer transportation program (VTP) in a rural community of Canada. A bottom-up approach was used to gather quantitative and qualitative data on the viability of planning and developing a rural VTP in a real-world setting. The action plan, developed and executed by the three founders of the VTP, involved surveying the community’s needs, creating a project plan, recruiting volunteers and other community members to assist with developing or operating the VTP, securing funding and resources to provide the service, hosting a public launch event of the VTP, and registering and purchasing premium insurance to operate as a charity service. The program scope and action plan of the rural VTP produced a blueprint on developing a VTP to promote age-friendly rural communities.References
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