Where are the people JABA serves?
In 2004 Jefferson Area Board of Aging served more than 1700 different clients. Many of the clients received multiple services. These services are described in detail at the JABA web sites Services Page.
Client services are tracked by the administrators of the program and reported to the Virginia Office of Aging and other Aging administrative offices. The classes of services so reported include:
Case Management: Assistance, either in the form of accessing needed services, benefits, and/or resources, or arranging the needed services by providers.
Access and Acquisition: Similar to Case Management, only the clients have a higher degree of financial need and receive services for free or on a sliding fee scale.
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Health risk assessments; routine health screening; nutritional counseling and educational services; health promotion programs; programs regarding physical fitness group exercise, and music, art, and dance movement therapy, and include multigenerational participation; home injury control services, screening for prevention of depression and coordination of mental health services; educational programs on the availability, benefits, and appropriate use of preventative health; medication management; information concerning diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of diseases; gerontological counseling; counseling regarding social services and follow-up health services based on above services.
Health Assessment, Health Services, and Medication Management: While seeming to fall under the category of disease prevention, are labeled differently by the Virginia Department on Aging.
Other services are Adult Day Health Care, the Cool Aid Program, Home Delivered Meals, Home Safety, Home Care, Senior Center Clients, Transportation, and Congregate Volunteers
Jefferson Area Board of Aging worked collaborated with the Mapping Project to make the spatial distribution of the clients available while insuring the confidentiality of the clients. (See Methodological Note.) The geocoded location of the client was perturbed by a random distance from the actual location so that no point would be within one-half block of its actual location. Consequently the pattern of clients can be analyzed, but the specific location of a client cannot be derived.
About 98% of the clients could be placed on the map. The remaining clients had P.O. Boxes or incorrect street addresses. The methodological note discusses the efficiency of the address coding and matching.
How effective is JABA in reaching is prospective clients?
Knowing the location of the clients allows comparing them with the enumerated number of persons in the 2000 Census of Population and Housing. Here, total clients in each census tract are compared with the total population 65 years of age and older as enumerated in the 2000 census. While the client data is for 2004 and the census data is for 2000, there is not strict correspondence. However, the resulting ratio does present a useful indicator of effectiveness. The darker the color, the higher the proportion of the "target" population is being served by JABA. Areas light in color do not have as many JABA clients. These may be areas with other services or populations that do not meet JABA's low and moderate income target population.
All Clients
The largest concentration of clients, not surprisingly, is in the urban area in and around Charlottesville. At the same time, a large proportion of the clients are scattered throughout the rural regions of the Planning District. A few clients list addresses outside the boundaries of TJPDC. This may be due to the address being of a "responsible party" and it may also indicate that JABA services are indeed received by a few who live outside the TJPDC Counties.
Comparing the residential location of the clients in 2004 with the reported population in the 2000 Census by census tract shows the effectiveness of JABA in reaching the lower income and higher poverty census tracts in the rural counties and central city of Charlottesville. The areas of lowest service rates are those with the higher incomes and lowest poverty rates in the region.
Transportation Service Clients
Clients receiving Transportation Assistance exist in all of the jurisdictions of TJPDC. There appears to be some "clustering" near senior day care centers, but no precise analysis is conducted here. The effectiveness comparison across the entire TJPDC is against the senior population with an "Leaving-the-home" disability as reported by the 2000 Census of Population. The areas of highest effectiveness are those areas with the smaller "Leaving-the-home" disabilities.
Clients Using JABA's Senior Centers
All Clients
Clients using the senior day centers are not surprisingly in close proximity to these facilities. These are displayed both in our mapping analysis and in the JABA location map of facilities.
All Clients
JABA Centers with Adult Day Health care exist only in The City of Charlottesville, and Louisa and Greene Counties. Consequently there are few clients in Fluvanna and Nelson Counties.
Other client service level maps are in editorial review.
