essay on elderly patients in rural areas having problems meeting health care needs due to transportation Solution Many elderly patients who are above 60 years old have been facing higher complex situations with respect to their health due to low transportation facilities across the country. This is due to lack of both federal and state \"transportation health care budgets\" to implement health care facilities including adequate rural transportation services finally making elderly people difficult to their health care access those who have been suffering from dementia, diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore, the health care needs including accident and emergency services to the rural pediatric patients are lower compared to the urban health care facilities so that it is crucial to improve essential public transportation systems to bring these pediatric patients to provide them with essential care.