Research on Services for the Elderly

Meyer, Judith W.

doi:10.2747/0272-3638.11.4.394

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“…Older people rely on a variety of critical services and business establishments to meet personal needs (Litwak, 1985;Meyer, 1990;Newman & Envall, 1995;Pynoos, 1992). Key community resources in Lancaster County were identified using CD-ROM and Web-based business directories.…”

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Geographic Information Systems in Community-Based Gerontological Research and Practice

Hirshorn

Stewart

2003

J Appl Gerontol

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Geographic information systems (GIS) can assist researchers and practitioners engaged in community-specific analyses that focus on older populations and their resource environments. Although some gerontologists may be using GIS for data visualization (i.e., to present data in map form), GIS spatial analytical functions appear to be underused in studies of older populations. This article examines the capacity and potential of GIS in gerontological research and practice by (a) briefly defining GIS; (b) describing the utility of some basic GIS visualization and spatial analytical methods using an illustrative, community-based gerontological study; and (c) discussing challenges and opportunities in the application of this information technology.

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Section: Community Resource Availability and Accessibilitymentioning

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Geographic Information Systems in Community-Based Gerontological Research and Practice

Hirshorn

Stewart

2003

J Appl Gerontol

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“…On the other hand, geographers have paid little attention to the relationship between public facility utilization and personal charac teristics of the non-institutionalized elderly (Meyer 1990). Among the few existing studies on public facility utilization of the elderly pop ulation, Meyer (1981a) found large racial and physical variation over the aged in terms of public nutrition services.…”

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Utilization of Elderly Care Facilities by the Non-Institutionalized Elderly in Matsumoto

Yamashita

1997

Geogr. Rev. Jpn, Ser B

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The present study reveals the relationship between public facility utilization by elderly persons and their personal characteristics. Although homogeneity in socioeconomic and demographic attributes of the elderly population has been assumed in previous studies, this paper attempts to identify the personal attributes and facility characteristics which are determinants of the public facility utilization among subgroups of the elderly population. In order to accomplish this purpose, one type of public elderly care facility, the elderly welfare center, was selected for this study. A mail questionnaire survey was conducted in Matsumoto, Japan, to investigate the utilization of elderly welfare centers, as well as the personal character istics of older persons aged 60 and above. The respondents to the questionnaire are divided into eight subgroups on the basis of personal characteristics, and data on the subgroups are subsequentely applied to the binary logit model. Results show that the distance traveled to the two elderly welfare centers and the age of the respondents determine center utilization throughout the subgroups. Conversely, no economic characteristics of the elderly people surveyed were found to influence the center utilization.

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“…Although a variety of empirical analyses have focused on spatial variation in need for such services, little research has addressed the geography of service delivery or use in the United States (Meyer, 1990). We propose a model that makes it possible to analyze local availability of a particular service in the context of a regional system for service delivery.…”

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Nutrition Service Availability: An Interaction Potential Model

Meyer

Cromley

1991

J Appl Gerontol

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Availability, defined as a measure of the supply of services relative to the needs in the community, is critical to older people, particularly the socially isolated and frail elderly who are less mobile than most of the population. This research proposes an interaction potential model to examine variation in availability of services by considering the capacity and location of service providers and demand for these services. The model does not constrain older people to meet their demand within their towns' borders. Several measures of availability are calculated for nutrition services in an area agency on aging region of Connecticut, using different beta values to represent varying levels of mobility for the total older population; considerable variation exists, depending on mobility assumptions. Availability measures can be used as independent variables in analyses of variation in actual use of services; a strong correlation exists between use and availability in Connecticut.

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Research on Services for the Elderly

Cited by 10 publications

References 36 publications

Geographic Information Systems in Community-Based Gerontological Research and Practice

Geographic Information Systems in Community-Based Gerontological Research and Practice

Utilization of Elderly Care Facilities by the Non-Institutionalized Elderly in Matsumoto

Nutrition Service Availability: An Interaction Potential Model

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