Assisted Living Facilities
Assisted Living Facilities
Assisted Living Facilities provide a degree of care for an older adult when independent living is no longer possible. Assisted living seeks to meet a resident's scheduled and unscheduled needs while maximizing the degree of independence, autonomy and dignity. Services may include supervision, housekeeping, meal preparation, and assistance with daily living.* As medical needs increase, a resident may move to a nursing home facility and if necessary to an alzheimer's care facility.
An alternative to these residential facilities, some degree of care may be supervised in the senior's own home through Home Health Care Services.
These services are mapped in this section of the report.
Some facilities serve multiple levels of need. These are symbolized differently on the maps: Assisted Living Alone (Pink), Assisted Living and Alzheimer's Services (Blue), Assisted Living and Nursing Care (Red), and Nursing Homes (Orange ). Home Health Care service offices are shown as (Green)
Sources of information included the Charlottesville local telephone directory and other web-based sources. An additional resource was a listing of Assisted Living Facilities provided by Cindy Westley RN,BC, MSN, ANP-C, Director of Patient and Family Education, UVa Health System.
Some of the Home Care Facilities listed may not provide nursing services.
Additional assisted living facilities, which were not listed in the local telephone directory and other web based sources, may be present in the region.
Travel time to Assisted Living Facilities
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The two maps above positions the assisted living facilities in the Thomas Jefferson Planning District and shows the approximate time required to travel by automobile to the nearest assisted living facility. The first shows the travel time along the road network; the second shows the average time to each census block.
Additional assisted living facilities, which were not listed in the local telephone directory and other web based sources, may be present in the region. Therefore, the time required to travel to the nearest assisted living facility is only approximate. Because the map only displays assisted living facilities located in the Thomas Jefferson Planning District, it does not account for people outside of the district. For example, people residing in Gum Spring (just to the southeast in Goochland County) may not have to travel over an hour to the nearest assisted living facility, as they may frequent a facility outside of the planning district.
Total Time for all Persons 65 Years or Older to Travel to the Nearest Assisted Living Facility for Each Census Block
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The preceding maps position the assisted living facilities in the Thomas Jefferson Planning District, and shows the aggregate time to travel to the nearest assisted living facility for each census block. The first shows the aggregate for the "Senior Population"; the second shows the aggregate for the "Total Population". Dark portions of the maps indicate areas which are either distant from Assisted Living Facilities, or have modest to high population numbers. Light areas are either close to the facilities or have very low populations.
Mapping the total time for all person 65 years or older to travel to the nearest assisted living facility for each census block may assist JABA in identifying the locations in the region where there is a lack of sufficient assisted living facilities. For example, some of the areas with an eight-hour aggregate travel time may have a high population of persons 65 years or older, which have difficulty traveling to an assisted living facility. Therefore, these are areas in which JABA could direct their services to assist these populations in need.
Mapping the total time for all persons in the population to the nearest assisted living facility displays the amount of travel energy likely for friends and relatives to visit and serve residents of these facilities. It could be considered a measure of how well the population is integrated into the lives of those who can no longer live "at home".
The creation of additional rural developments with age-restricted marketing or limits on residents who do not have children may increase the aggregate accessibility costs in rural areas as even those persons age in place. Some have suggested that the far suburban and rural development are by persons who may not have rural cultural experience and may have much higher "urban" service expectations.