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This study examines barriers to integrating Age-Friendly Plans and Climate Adaptation Plans in Israeli municipalities, where both frameworks were recently introduced nationwide.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Research Design and Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>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.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>4 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.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion and Implications<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>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.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/geront\/gnag181","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,9]],"date-time":"2026-08-09T11:32:33Z","timestamp":1786275153000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Grey and green: can the two walk together? 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