A GIS Analysis of East Asian Care Gaps in Residential and Assisted Living Facilities in Vancouver, Canada

Walker, Blake Byron; Canham, Sarah L.; Wister, Andrew; Fang, Mei Lan

doi:10.1080/02763893.2018.1534177

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“… Neighborhoods with more utilitarian destinations were associated with excessive sedentary time among older women. Blake Byron Walker 2019 [ 35 ] Canada 286,211 persons comprising the total population aged 65+ years Quantitative: Spatial-epidemiological approach, questionnaire, moving-average linear model Mapping Each facility location in the study area was mapped using GIS. The calculation of local rates used GIS.…”

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“…Among the 61 articles reviewed, the needs of older adults were categorized into medical care, basic living, transportation, and spiritual needs. A total of 37 articles focused on medical care [ 3 , 15 , 16 , 20 , 21 , 23 , 24 , 28 , 29 , 31 , 32 , 36 , 37 , 39 – 41 , 43 , 45 – 50 , 50 , 51 , 53 , 54 , 56 , 57 , 60 , 63 – 68 , 72 ], 14 articles addressed basic living needs [ 14 , 18 , 26 , 27 , 30 , 35 , 38 , 44 , 52 , 55 , 58 , 61 , 62 , 69 ], 8 articles discussed transportation needs [ 19 , 22 , 25 , 34 , 42 , 70 , 71 , 73 ], and 2 articles explored spiritual needs [ 17 , 33 ].…”

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Navigating Aged Care Services with GIS: Trends, Developments, and Future Directions

Wang,

Liu

2024

BMC Geriatr

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Background With the growing challenge of an aging population, emerging technologies are increasingly being integrated into the production, organization, and delivery of aged care services. Geographic Information System (GIS), a computer-based tool for spatial information analysis and processing, has made significant strides in the allocation of care recources and service delivery for older adults, a notably vulnerable group. Despite its growing importance, cross-disciplinary literature reviews on this theme are scare. This scoping review was conducted to encapsulate the advancements and discern the future trajectory of GIS applications in aged care services. Methods A comprehensive search across nine databases yielded 5941 articles. Adhering to specific inclusion and exclusion criteria, 61 articles were selected for a detailed analysis. Results The 61 articles span from 2003 to 2022, with a notable increase in publications since 2018, comprising 41 articles (67% of the total) published between 2018-2022. Developed countries contributed 66% of the papers, with 45% focusing on accessibility issues. In the domain of aged care services, GIS has been predominantly utilized for model construction, mapping, and site selection, with a growing emphasis on addressing the unique needs of different subgroups of older adults. Conclusion The past two decades have seen substantial growth in the application of GIS in aged care services, reflecting its increasing importance in this field. This scoping review not only charts the historical development of GIS applications in aged care services but also underscores the need for innovative research approaches. Future directions should emphasize the integration of GIS with diverse methodologies to address the heterogeneous needs of older adults and improve the overall delivery of aged care services. Such advancements in GIS applications have the potential to significantly enhance the efficiency, accessibility, and quality of care for the aging population.

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Navigating Aged Care Services with GIS: Trends, Developments, and Future Directions

Wang,

Liu

2024

BMC Geriatr

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“…The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien 2022, 66(1): [184][185][186][187][188][189][190][191][192][193][194][195][196][197] Residential care in California 195 the distribution of care, with race predicting access to care more than economic resources in certain cases, such as older Hispanics who are the most displaced from residential care in California, as well as Asian older adults with respect to culturally sensitive facilities in Vancouver, Canada (Frochen et al 2019;Walker et al 2019). In terms of policy, only Los Angeles out of the three Cities investigated in this study possesses a planning ordinance aggressively geared toward eldercare facilities, including residential care facilities, that incentivizes such development through a unified permitting process and allowance of facility development in any zone in the city, given the approval of an eldercare facility permit (City of Los Angeles 2006).…”

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Residential care in California: Spatial and temporal trends in facility development and care capacity

Frochen

Ailshire

Rodnyansky

et al. 2021

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Residential care and other forms of long-term care are increasing along with the older adult population, but not uniformly across space and time.• In certain locations, residential care capacity as measured in beds per older adults has decreased or experienced intermittent growth and decline. • The greatest densities of oldest old adults in the jurisdictions studied appear to have overlapped with at least small traces of the residential care industry in cartographic analyses.The development of residential care has not kept pace with the growth of the older population in many places. We merged the California Department of Social Services residential care for the elderly dataset with census place data to document the growth of facilities and beds per older adults in all of California and in its three largest cities. From 1996 to 2015, residential care steadily increased in California by the number of facilities and beds relative to older adults. However, due to a consistently increasing older adult population, the Cities of San Diego and San Jose experienced gradual and intermittent decline in capacity per older adults, respectively, even as they added many beds to their inventories from the sporadic development of large assisted living and continuing care retirement communities. Additionally, San Jose and Los Angeles exhibited the most overlap in densities of facility development and oldest old adults, with San Diego showing less intersection in cartographic analyses. Understanding facility development and care capacity trends can help local agencies and jurisdictions in the United States and other countries discern whether planning policies and other geographical and development factors appropriately encourage the development of residential care and other long-term care facilities.

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“…Glasby et al., 2019 ; Netten et al., 2005 ). Concerns regarding changing levels of social care supply in relation to demographic trends are also mirrored in wider international contexts (see for example Fret et al., 2019 ; Matei et al., 2018 ; Walker et al., 2019 ).…”

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“…An example of this approach was included in the Competition and Markets Authority Overall, 90% of all postcode sectors had this level of provision with 19% having two or fewer predominantly located in rural areas. Walker et al (2019) demonstrated how spatial analytical methods can be used to investigate inequalities in access to senior care facilities tailored for specific cultural groups in Vancouver. Their supply/demand analysis enabled the identification of disparities in the availability of such services but as acknowledged by the researchers, used relatively simplistic service ratios of beds per total population for specified cultural groups for census tracts whose geometric centroid was within 2 km walking distance of residential care facilities.…”

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Towards an understanding of inequalities in accessing residential and nursing home provision: The role of geographical approaches

Higgs

Langford

Llewellyn

2022

Health Social Care Comm

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Suggestions of the existence of so‐called ‘social care deserts’ in England in the years leading up to the COVID‐19 pandemic drew attention to the potential impact of geographical inequalities on the availability of residential, nursing and domiciliary care. To date, much of this analysis has been conducted at spatially aggregated scales such as that of local authorities or postcode sector. Hidden within such aggregate‐level analysis however are geographical differences in the local provision of care services. In this paper, we draw attention to geographical modelling techniques that can be used to examine local trends in the supply of social care services in relation to potential demand. These spatial models can be used to examine variations in the number of facilities (or choice) within reasonable drive times/distances. Drawing on a national database of residential and nursing care beds in Wales for March 2020, we illustrate the potential of such techniques to provide an insight into current patterns in access to care homes, and to monitor future changes in the fall‐out from the effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the care home sector. The concentration of care home sites in metropolitan areas and in the heavily populated post‐industrial valleys in the south‐east is identified, but significant demand present in these areas ameliorates scores towards mid‐range ratios. We conclude by suggesting that the types of techniques used in this study enable disparities in provision within localised areas to be better explored, thereby helping planners and policy makers to address potential inequalities in provision.

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A GIS Analysis of East Asian Care Gaps in Residential and Assisted Living Facilities in Vancouver, Canada

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Navigating Aged Care Services with GIS: Trends, Developments, and Future Directions

Navigating Aged Care Services with GIS: Trends, Developments, and Future Directions

Residential care in California: Spatial and temporal trends in facility development and care capacity

Towards an understanding of inequalities in accessing residential and nursing home provision: The role of geographical approaches

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