Aging in Place in Ventura County:
Addressing a New Challenge
Searching for Solutions to Current and Future Challenges to a Growing Demographic
Case Study: City of Thousand Oaks
UP 206A: Introduction to GIS
Instructor: Leo Estrada
TA: Nic Jay Aulston / Peter Capone-Newton
Presented by Dao Doan
March 14, 2011
Sources:
US Census Bureau/American FactFinder;
US Dept of Labor, US Bureau of Labor Statistics (2009)
Thousand Oaks Council on Aging
Civic Ventures
City of Thousand Oaks GIS Dept
Photos and sketches by Dao Doan
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The Issues:
1. Growing Aging Population (Starting
in 2012, about 10,000 people will
become 65 every day)
2. Economic and Social Impacts
a) Housing and Mobility
b) Services
c) Family
3. Life Transitions
Source: Civic Ventures
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The Challenges:
1. Desire to age in place is high. But sprawl is unfriendly to seniors
2. Urban Opportunities and Constraints
3. High expenses in housing, transportation, food and health care (65% of
combined income)
4. Search for and study alternatives
• Local
• County
• Region
The Objectives:
1. Education/Outreach
2. Affect Policies:
• Housing
• Land use
• Mobility
The Approach:
Study case studies and concepts
US Dept of Labor, US Bureau of Labor Statistics (2009)
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Types of transitions with impact on/by built environment:
1. Retirement
(no longer needing to live near work with the freedom to act upon other values that move up in
importance)
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Changes in health status, aging changes or onset of disability
Dissolution of a family union such as divorce or loss of spouse
Need or desire to be geographically located next to children or family
Financial status change
The Players:
1. Thousand Oaks Council on Aging
2. Ventura County Civic Alliance (VCCA)
3. Conejo Future Foundation
4. Ventura County Quality of Life Task Force (professionals seeking to better design senior services for
Baby Boomers)
5. Ventura County Area Agency on Aging (VCAAA)
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Local Business Leaders and Concerned Residents
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Ventura County:
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Population: over 800,000
65 and over: Close to 12%
Approximate land area: 1,850 S.M.
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Camarillo
Fillmore
Moorpark
Ojai
Oxnard
Port Hueneme
Santa Paula
Simi Valley
Thousand Oaks
Ventura
Case study: Thousand Oaks
• Thousand Oaks Blvd
• Neighborhood center
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The next steps as defined in prior presentation:
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Identify poverty pockets
Identify potential services for seniors within subject boundary
Identify potential opportunity for in-fill or adaptive rehab sites
Create concept vision of future development
Identify policies targeted for reform
Advocate reform through public outreach
Technical steps for this presentation:
1. Clean up graphic and data presentation
2. Search for and research new data to incorporate into presentation, i.e.
parcel maps and topographical maps
3. Explore other features in GIS
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Analysis:
Senior population distribution in 3 categories:
• 55-64 (second largest group)
• 65-74 (smallest group)
• 75 and over (largest group)
There are subtle differences in population distribution, with the largest concentration of 75
and over in Thousand Oaks and Oxnard
Aging in Place in Ventura County: Addressing a New Challenge
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Poverty:
Although considered
a relatively affluent
county, Ventura is
not immune to
pockets of poverty
level, especially
among seniors, who
are more dependent
on access and
mobility than others
Aging in Place in Ventura County: Addressing a New Challenge
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Case Study-Thousand Oaks
• One can observe that in some tracts
some 75-and-older groups are
congregated closer to town than the other
two groups.
• In Thousand Oaks there are more
seniors in the 55-64 group than the 65-74
or 75 and over groups.
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City-wide Analysis:
Identification of key
landmarks:
•Hospital
•Emergency Response
•Retail and Services
•Public Transit
•Civic (Library, Post
Office, DMV, City Hall,
Performance Center)
Aging in Place in Ventura County: Addressing a New Challenge
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City-wide Analysis:
Review of poverty
situation:
•There are areas of
poverty concentration
in more urbanized
sections
•Some areas around
Thousand Oaks Blvd
indicate need of focus.
TO Blvd is an area of
opportunity
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Examples of existing amenities
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Case study 1: Thousand Oaks Blvd
Primarily commercial
corridor
Numerous retail and
commercial services
Current Specific Plan
under consideration
Opportunities for Mixed
Use redevelopment
Potential densification
Proximity to various Civic
and public amenities
Potential future downtown
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Advocate change of land use policies to
promote walkable neighborhoods through
adaptive rehabilitation of existing building
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Case study 2: Newbury Park
Explore opportunities for redevelopment of in a neighborhood
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Modeling:
Objective: Create model to buffer important landmarks and assess proximity
of population to such landmarks. They are:
•Hospital
•Emergency Response
•Retail and Services
•Public Transit
•Civic (Library, Post Office, DMV, City Hall, Performance Center)
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Summary of skills
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Creating Maps with data from American FactFinder (Slide 5)
Exporting/Clipping Cities of the County (Slides 5, 6, 7)
Exporting/Selecting Road attributes, Creating new layers (Slides 8, 9, 10)
Symbolizing features of population (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
Exploring with colors and transparencies
Exploring with symbologies
Creating and symbolizing population groups (6, 7, 8)
Clipping of attributes (5, 6, 7, 8)
Selecting and extracting attributes (all spatial slides)
Selecting and symbolizing attributes (all spatial slides)
Creating new layers (all spatial slides)
Creating and dissolving buffer (9, 11, 12, 15)
Researching, obtaining and creating new topo and parcel layers (slides 11, 12, 15)
Exploring modeling (slide 18)
Made lots of and learned from mistakes (all spatial slides)
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The End
Epilogue: The road to GISdom is littered with disastrous mistakes…
but this old dog has learned new tricks…
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