Chaffee County Senior Needs Assessment

Analysis and report of findings from survey of seniors in rural Colorado county

Background

The 2016-2021 Chaffee County Community Health Improvement Plan identified Senior Supports and Services as a focus area. In response, the community formed a Senior Planning Committee that fielded a survey to area seniors in winter 2019-2020 to gather details about their specific needs as they age.

Nicole was asked to conduct the analysis of this survey and share the findings with the Senior Planning Committee.

Timeline

December 2019 through July 2020

Main Activities

  • Conduct analysis of survey results that were collected by the Senior Planning Committee
    • Clean and wrangle raw data for analysis in R
    • Conduct descriptive statistics in R
    • Code qualitative data and perform mixed-methods crosstabs analysis in Dedoose
  • Prepare infographic summary that can be posted on social media and community bulletin boards
  • Create presentation slides and present findings to Senior Planning Committee
  • Write final narrative report

Tools Created

none

Results

Chaffee County Senior Master Plan Survey and Interview Analysis Report

Chaffee County Senior Master Plan Presentation