Overall, half of all residents in the Mid-Hudson Valley have a positive impression of the quality of services offered to senior citizens in their community. 50% rate these services as at least good while 39% consider them to be of fair or poor quality.
These sentiments closely mirror residents’ attitudes five years ago when 49% felt positively about the quality of services available to senior citizens in their community, and 36% did not.
However, there are stark differences among the seven counties. Orange and Putnam Counties are the only counties in the Mid-Hudson Valley where a majority of residents feel positively about the services offered to senior citizens in their community. 54% of Orange County residents rate the quality of local senior services positively as do 58% of Putnam County residents. In addition, 49% of Dutchess County residents feel positively about the quality of services available to senior citizens compared with 38% who do not.
Residents within the other counties of the Mid-Hudson Valley are less satisfied with the quality of services offered to senior citizens in their community. Residents of Greene and Ulster Counties divide on this point. About half of residents of both Columbia and Sullivan Counties rate the services available to seniors as only fair or poor.
Senior citizens are more upbeat about the quality of services they available to them than residents under the age of sixty-five. 58% of senior citizens rate the quality of the services available in their community favorably compared with 48% of younger residents. People living with seniors also feel more positively than the overall population about these services.
This difference is mainly due to the fact that younger people and residents who do not live in a household with a senior citizen are more likely to be unsure rather than feel less positively about the quality of services available to seniors.
