Health Datapalooza IV: June 3rd-4th, 2013 APPS EXPO LIVE DEMOS Monday June 3, 2013 • 1:30pm - 5:00pm Location: Ambassador Ballroom Hurricane Sandy disproportionately affected older adults in New York. Seniors’ health depends not only on hospitals and disaster management organizations--but also community social services. Civic tech volunteers created the Senior Services Map for elderly, caregivers, professionals, and volunteers. The map included disaster-specific needs of older adults, as well as ongoing resources because the help many older adults needed after the storm were meals, care management, and services that senior organizations usually provide. This project demonstrates the power of open data for civilian engagement, effectiveness of public-private partnerships, plus importance of community resilience and capacity building prior to disaster. http://bit.ly/ sssmap2

1. Sandy Senior Services
on Google Crisis Map
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2. Hurricane Sandy in New York
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3. Elderly disproportionately affected
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4. Where Find Help? Where Volunteer?
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5. • Hear storm updates
• Find resources
• Contact orgs
• Distribute info ( bit.ly/sssmap2 )
Twitter
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6. Open Data Sources  Google Spreadsheet
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7. bit.ly/helpsss
Crowdsourced Details & Updates
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8. 600 NYC + 100 LI addresses mapped
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9. http://bit.ly/sssmap2
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10. Feedback from professionals in aging
services & other community leaders:
VERY USEFUL!
• “Awesome. Thanks for this. We're using it with our work at Selfhelp.”
• “Thank you very much. This is a great resource for the community. I will
be sure to pass this along to community members.”
• “This is amazing - I was just thinking of all the amazing tech potential of
companies and hoping that someone would take the lead on an
initiative like this.”
BEYOND NYC?
• Is this only for NYC? Long Island has been hit so hard.
• Is anyone from your group working with any NJ agencies?
• We need to also think about the bigger picture because of the area of
damage done by Sandy.
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11. Lessons Learned
• DATA
– Toughest part of project = 1. getting the data 2. cleaning the data
– Make existing data sets available
– Crowdsource additional data
• COLLABORATE with different orgs and stakeholders
– Ex. Tech + Aging + Medical communities
– Do so early, before a crisis
– Involve grass roots and community based organizations.
– Partner with individuals and organizations who will get stuff done.
• SUSTAINABILITY
– Consider different needs of different stages of Relief, Recovery, Rebuilding.
Develop tech that can manage entire lifecycle of disaster response.
– Consolidate similar projects (for example put all mapped info in one website.)
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12. What’s Next?
• Preparing for emergencies is
most effective by building skills
and tools used before crisis
• There is ongoing, everyday
need for a Senior Services Map
to be used by caregivers, social
services & healthcare pros.
– Rapidly aging population
– Caregiver burden & time
away from work
Find funding & project owner
to:
• Develop separate website
for the map with more
robust features
– Searching / filtering
– Demographic layers
– Analytics
• Expand map to other states
& regions as an ongoing
community resource
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13. Questions or suggestions contact:
HelpNYCSeniors@gmail.com
Wen Dombrowski @HealthcareWen (geriatrics physician in tech)
Leah Vaughn @HealthPolicyGrp (open data provider)
Pete Giencke @Giencke (Google Crisis Response team GIS engineer)
Jimmy Shen @JimmyShen (data analyst)
Council of Senior Centers and Services (distribution channel)
North Shore – LIJ (data provider and distribution channel)
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