The final community assessment paper will be submitted in Module 8. This week please add the hours you have spent completing the community assessment to your Project Hours Log and submit. You should have approximately 2-4 hours logged for the geriatric assessment from Mod 2 and now an additional 10-14 hours for this week’s portion of the community assessment. Only the Project Hours Log is submitted this week.
Overview
In this module, you will finalize the completion of the full assessment of your own community.
Defining the Community
Your community should be within a specifically designated geographic location.
One must clearly delineate the following dimensions before starting the process of community assessment:
• Describe the population that is being assessed?
• What is/are the race(s) of this population within the community?
• Are there boundaries of this group? If so, what are they?
• Does this community exist within a certain city or county?
• Are there general characteristics that separate this group from others?
• Education levels, birth/death rates, age of deaths, insured/uninsured?
• Where is this group located geographically…? Urban/rural?
• Why is a community assessment being performed? What purpose will it serve?
• How will information for the community assessment be collected?