DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04301
title: Community Partnerships for Older Adults (CPOA) Program Survey of Older Adults, 2002 [United States]
title: Archival Version

description: This survey is one component of the evaluation of the
Community Partnerships for Older Adults (CPOA) Program, an initiative
of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aimed at promoting improvements
in the organization and delivery of long-term care and supportive
services for older adults through local public-private community
partnerships. The survey interviewed a representative sample of older
adults aged 50 and over in 13 communities that were awarded
development grants by the program. Designed to obtain baseline data
about each community's population and to provide information to target
the CPOA's activities in the most effective way, the survey
interviewed respondents about supportive and long-term care services
for older adults in their communities, including the availability, use
of, and quality of the services and sources of information about them.
Respondents were asked if they expected to stay in their community, if
their homes needed repairs or modifications to improve their ability
to live in them, how important it was to be able to live in their own
home as they grew older, the age at which they thought they would need
help to continue living in their own home, and the age at which they
thought they could no longer live at home because of health
problems. The survey also collected information on health status,
problems with activities of everyday life, health insurance coverage
and long-term care insurance, hospital stays, living arrangements,
social activities, support from family and friends, access to
transportation, and demographic characteristics.
description: Response Rates: The response rate averaged 63.0 percent across the
13 sites.
description: Households were selected using list-assisted
 random-digit-dialing, and one respondent was randomly selected in each
 eligible household. Respondents who were classified as "vulnerable"
 or "decision makers" were oversampled in most sites to achieve the
 target number of interviews. To qualify as vulnerable, a person had to
 be aged 60 or over and had to meet at least one of the following
 criteria: (1) needed help bathing, (2) used a cane, walker, or
 wheelchair, (3) rated their health as fair or poor, (4) was afraid to
 be alone for more than two hours, (5) had a chronic illness, (6) was
 of advanced age (75 or over) A decision maker was identified as
 someone aged 50 or over who made decisions about the living
 arrangements or assistance with personal care for a vulnerable person
 in the grantee community. In all sites except Fulton County, the
 overall target was 400 interviews, of which at least half were to be
 members of the vulnerable or decision maker groups. In Fulton County,
the overall target was increased to 550 interviews.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Community Partnerships for Older Adults (CPOA) Program Survey of Older Adults, 2002 [United States]
description: Adults aged 50 and over in 13 communities that were
awarded CPOA development grants:
Boston, Massachusetts
Broome County, New York
Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties, Vermont
El Paso County, Texas
Harris County, Texas
Maui Island, Hawaii
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Riverside County, California
St. Clair County, Michigan
San Francisco County, California
Columbia and Union Counties, Arkansas
Upper Peninsula (Keweenaw, Houghton, Baraga, Ontonagon, and
Gogebic Counties), Michigan
Fulton County, Georgia..
description: computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI)