What are the reasons for the gap in the level of services for the elderly between urban and rural areas?

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The causes of this variation and the rural–urban service gap are many and complex, including factors such as lower population size and density, smaller proximate population centres, greater distances between people and existing services, rural population and economic decline, diminished rural political clout, geographic isolation, increased centralization of health care providers, and flat federal funding for human services.