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In 2007, the World Health Organization published a guide on age‐friendly cities. However, little is known about interventions that have been implemented to promote age‐friendly communities in rural and remote areas. This paper presents the findings from a scoping review undertaken to locate available evidence of interventions, strategies, and programs that have been implemented in rural and remote areas to create age‐friendly communities.

This scoping review used the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology.

A total of 219 articles were included in this review. No intervention studies were referred to as ‘age‐friendly’. However, there were interventions (mostly healthcare‐related) that have been implemented in rural and remote areas with older people as participants. There were also non‐evaluated community programs that were published in the grey literature. This review …