My focus has been on the urban areas, and I know, to extrapolate some of the more suburban situations.... We know, for example, in the suburban areas around Toronto, which are very car-dependent, the Minister of Transportation projects that 42% of people who are currently in their fifties will not have driving licences 20 years from now. The same kind of problem is going to be faced in rural areas, and it is truly a problem.
The only thing I can suggest is that people like to age in places that are familiar to them. If you're talking about a rural situation where people aren't physically proximate, the only thing that can substitute for the kind of social network you referred to is to have places created that are in a village or somewhere in the general geographic area.