Miles to Go: Aging in Rural Virginia

by Susan Garrett

You can drive out of Charlottesville, Virginia, in any direction and within ten minutes find yourself in third-world rural poverty. In 1988, University of Virginia academics began pondering how the institution's vast resources could be used to improve the lives of these rural poor. The result was the Rural Elder Outreach Project, an innovative experiment that for five years evaluated and provided in-home nursing care for rural elder poor in five...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813917999
• ISBN13: 9780813917993
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher