Grey and Green: Can the Two Walk Together? Challenges to Climate Planning for an Aging Population: Perspectives of Israeli Policy Stakeholders and Planners

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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Climate change disproportionately affects older adults, yet age-friendly planning and climate adaptation remain disconnected in municipal implementation. This study examines barriers to integrating Age-Friendly Plans (AFPs) and Climate Adaptation Plans (CAPs) in Israeli municipalities, where both frameworks were recently introduced nationwide. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 39 policy stakeholders, planners, municipal administrators, and academics involved in age-friendly or climate adaptation initiatives. Interview transcripts were analyzed using thematic analysis to identify barriers preventing integration. RESULTS: Four interconnected barriers emerged, operating at macro and micro levels. At the macro level, knowledge gaps about climate-aging connections and resource constraints limit municipal capacity. At the micro level, narrow institutional framing that reduces aging to welfare concerns and fear-based avoidance of both aging and climate change impede implementation. These barriers function as a self-reinforcing system: structural knowledge gaps enable cognitive barriers, while fear-based avoidance influences institutional priorities and resource allocation. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Our two-level barrier model demonstrates how macro-level structural constraints and micro-level cognitive and psychological barriers reinforce one another, systematically maintaining policy separation despite clear resonances. Successful integration requires interprofessional collaboration, cognitive reframing, capacity-building, active local government leadership, sustained funding mechanisms, and proactive governance structures that support integration across policy domains.
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Authors Shvat Eilat, Liat Ayalon
Journal the gerontologist
Year 2026
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10.1093/geront/gnag181
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https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnag181
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