TOPICS:

Substantive Issues:
Aging: What does it Mean
Housing Issues: Aging in Place; Universal Housing Standards, Visitability
Housing Markets: Housing Stock, transitions, group quarters, alternative housing
Health Issues: Healthy Living, Access to Services, Transitions, Emergencies
Accessibility: Pedestrian orientation, Public/quasi-public transportation
Serving the aging population: facilities, people, caregivers, information,
volunteers
The Economics of Aging

GIS Topics, Issues and Methods:
GIS project management
Data, Personnel, Hardware, Software, Procedures
Project Design and Management
Product Definition and negotiation
GIS Data Model Development
            Object Oriented Data Models
            Cross-jurisdictional data sharing
            Meta Data Properties and standards
                                    Coordinate Systems
                                    Scale and Accuracy
                                    Attribute definitions
            Data Confidentiality and Privacy Issues
GIS Analysis Model Development
            Geocoding Addresses
            Facility and Incident Mapping
            Land Parcel and Assessment Data Mapping
            Thematic Mapping of Census data
            Relative measures of concentration and specialization
                  Density models
           Geostatistical Analysis
           Modeling Uncertainty
Data Quality Assessment Reporting
Data Maintenance Procedure Plan

Operational Considerations:

You will want to acquire storage media as backup for digital work.  We will have disk space on the HOME2/Courses Directory.  However, you should not solely rely on them to preserve your work.  The particular way you choose to back up the work may depend on your personal as well as school computers.  Develop a strategy and use it!  The lack of a backup copy is not a sufficient excuse for missed work.

Attendance:

  If you are not going to be at a class session, you are expected to 1) inform the instructor of your absence and its purpose and 2) inform any team members with whom you are currently working.  

Team meetings or work sessions by necessity will have to occur outside of the regular class times.  Most often these will involve the current team members and perhaps the instructor. If you find that you are not going to be at a work session that your particular team has scheduled, your first obligation is to notify them personally BEFORE THE MEETING and also to notify the instructor by email.   Notifying team members only by email will generally be insufficient if the inability to fulfill a meeting commitment is discovered within 24 hours of that meeting.

Professional Demeanor

This is a professional practice course. We will be visiting professional offices, making professional presentations and having professionals visit our classes.  To be taken seriously students need to present themselves in a professional manner.  Dressing appropriately is considered part of the learning process of becoming a professional.  Punctuality and courtesy is expected.

Student Accommodations

:  All students with special needs requiring accommodations should present  the appropriate paperwork from the Learning Needs and Evaluation Center (LNEC). It is the student’s responsibility to present this paperwork in a timely fashion and follow up with the instructor about the accommodations being offered. Students are urged to fulfill this responsibility within the first two weeks of the class.

 The LNEC is located in the Department of Student Health and can be contacted at 243-5180/5181. http://www.virginia.edu/studenthealth/lnec.html

Contacting the Instructor:

You may contact the instructor by using email or phoning the office:

dlp@virginia.edu
434-982-2196 (phone mail available)

Readings: 

            Text: Olmsby, Getting to Know ArcGIS
           Johnston, Kevin, Jay M. VerHoef, Konstantin Krivoruchko, and Neil Lucas: Using Geostatistical Analyst, ESRI Press. Available in Geostat Library.

            Some readings and references will be electronically available on the internet or Toolkit.

References:

JABA: Website: http://www.jabacares.org/

Specific Themes:
                      2020 Plan-- http://www.jabacares.org/communityInitiatives.html
                      Longterm care planning grant:
http://www.jabacares.org/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=78
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BOOKS:
           Waller, Lance A. and Carol A. Gotway, Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data, Wiley. 2004. (Phillips has Library copy to be put on Reserve.)

            Other references will be available in the Fine Arts and GEOSTAT libraries.
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Reports:
National Academies Press:
The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century: Statistics for Health Policy.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/737.html
Improving Data on America’s Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop (1996)
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309056330/html/index.html

Bibliographic Service of the National Aging Information Center:
http://www.aoa.gove/naic

Other Web Sites:
Aging:

Housing:
Aging In Place
National Aging in Place Council http://www.ageinplace.org
Senior Safe Housing: http://www.seniorsafehome.com
Partners for Livable Communities: Aging In Place Dialogue
http://www.livable.come/aging/issue.htm
Maryland State Housing and Elderly Taskforce
http://www.dhcd.state.md.us/housingpolicy/sh/2004010106report.asp

Confidentiality and Privacy:
UVA Institutional Review Board for Social and Behavioral Sciences
http://www.virginia.edu/vprgs/irbsbs.html
Statistical Disclosure Control: Center for Demography of Health and Aging:
University of Wisconsin, Madison http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/seminar/prior/argus2004.html

Mapping:
Department of Health and Human Services: Health Resources and Services Administration
Geospatial Data Warehouse and Interactive Mapping
http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/pcsa.html
http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/interactive_maps.htm

MORE COMING:

Preliminary SCHEDULE:

Week 1:  September 20

Introduction to the course.  Mechanics, requirements, readings etc.
Introduction to Jefferson Board of Aging and their agenda; Issue Scanning
Computer Logistics,

Week 2:  1/25, 1/27

Monday: Special Event—Faculty Research Forum 1-5 p.m.

Tuesday:  Guest Lecture: Dr. Richard Lindsay, “What is Aging? How do you work toward a Community that plans with Aging in mind?” Room 135, 12:30 p.m.- 1:45. Discussion.

Thursday:  Stories from the Aging Landscape; Discussion Introduction to GIS Project Management,
LAB: Review of ArcMap fundamentals.

Week 3: 2/1, 2/3

Tuesday:  Discussion of the spatial content of the JABA 2020 plan. Formulate questions for JABA staff

Thursday:  Presentation of “Elements of an age-friendly Community” and Discussion with the Staff of JABA: Ms. April Holmes, 2020 Planner, Mr. Mike Heckman, Housing Specialist, Lori Hemp, Research Facilitator, and possibly Paul Takayaragi, Long Term Care Planner.

LAB: Thematic Mapping

INDIVIDUAL DISCUSSIONS

Week 4: 2/8, 2/10

Project scoping; Data Need Assessment; Defining Base Map Needs; Assignment of Data Collection Tasks; Symbol Standards; Metadata Format Procedures; Review of Census Geography and Census Data Availability; Review of TIGER file format and availability.

Week 5: 2/15, 2/17

Creation of Base Map and Facility Mapping
Address matching—Geocoding; Confidentiality and Privacy Issues.

Week 6: 2/22, 2/24

Census Information Mapping Review; Housing information review;
Density Mapping.

Week 7: 3/1, 3/3

Health Mapping.
Accessibility Mapping Issues

Spring Break (3/5-3/13)

Week 8: 3/15,3 /17:

Workshop Sessions

Week 9: 3/22, 3/24

Preliminary Presentation and Discussions with JABA Staff

Debriefing of Discussion, Refocus and Redesign Project,
Workshop Sessions

Week 10: 3/29, 3/31

Geostatistical Analysis Workshop

Week 11: 4/5, 4/7

            Production Week

Week 12: 4/12, 4/14

            Production Week

Week 13: 4/19, 4/21

            Preliminary Report and Trial Run Presentation

Week 14: 4/26, 4/28

           Final Report and Presentation Preparation

Last Class  5/3

Presentation of the Atlas “Mapping the Landscape of Aging” to JABA staff and visitors.