Living Alone
With 6,258 seniors living alone, and the largest proportion of those in Albemarle and Charlottesville. The distribution among the census blocks of seniors living alone by gender is shown in the following map.
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Living Arrangements
In what kinds of households do Seniors live?
In the Thomas Jefferson Planning District in 2000 there were 24,488 persons 65 year of age and older. Ninety-four percent or 22,970 were in households. The remaining 6% or 1,518 were in group quarters. The diagram above subdivides the households into Family (57%) and Non-Family (43%) Households. The overwhelming majority (95%) of the 6,583 non-family households were persons over 65 years of age living alone. Three-quarters of these were females. Married couple households were approximately 82% of the Senior Family Households. Few of these had children under 18 living at home. Of the 18% of Other Family Households (where one spouse is not present) 98% had some relative other than their own child living in the home.
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Group Quarter Population
As people age, they may not be able to sustain independent living in their own home. They may find residence in group quarters. Institutional group quarters are those facilities that assume some degree of custodial care of the individual. These include nursing homes and assisted living facilities. (They also include prisons.) Other cooperative or group living arrangements where autonomy is maintained are "non-institutional care facilities". (See Glossary)
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