Data Source and Calculation
<p>The calculation begins by identifying clients that have 2 or more Activities in Daily Living (ADL) needs and received at least one in-home service such as Adult Day Care, Checking, Chore, Home Delivered Meals, Homemaker, or Personal Care during a certain quarter of the previous year divided by the same clients that received an in-home service in the same quarter one year later. The result is expressed as a percentage.</p> <p>Definitions:</p> <p>• Activities of Daily Living (ADL): Involve bathing, dressing, eating, toileting, transferring, bowel and bladder continence.</p> <p>• Frail: Functionally impaired unable to perform at least two activities of daily living without mechanical or human assistance.</p> <p>• In-Home Services: Include Adult Day Care, Checking, Chore, Home Delivered Meals, Homemaker, and Personal Care.</p> <p>• Older Virginians (clients): Age 60 and over.</p> <p>Quarters: June-August, September-November, December-February, March-May. Input Factors: 1) Number of frail clients that received in-home services during the last quarter and also received in-home services during the same quarter one year ago. 2) Number of frail clients that received in-home services the quarter one year ago. Calculation: Factor 1 divided by Factor 2 expressed as a percentage.</p>
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