The information about ages, including filters, the edit form, and page display, are more intuitive for both providers and caregivers
Nancy and I have been trying to refine the ages filters more because we are still not convinced the current setup yields the best results. Specifically, we're talking about the dilemma between numbered age filters for children "1-18", and the descriptive labels for adults "Young Adults, Adults, Senior Adults". We're proposing we make the following changes:
- Edit form: a. We'd like to divide current "Ages" field and separate the child-ages, prenatal to 18, from the adult ages. b. The new field for child-ages would be titled "Youth Ages" and include the current entries for prenatal to 18. We would also need to add a new box for "No children" or "Not for children" to the list of possible entries. The field would work the same way as the current field where providers could select as boxes as they wanted. c. The new field for adult-ages would be titled "Adult Ages". It would include boxes for "No Adults", "Young Adults", "All Adults", and "Senior Adults". It would be the type of field that requires the user select only one option, and selecting no options is not available.
- Page information display, we'd like the information on pages to display as follows:
a. For a child ages, the current configuration works where numbers are displayed in a range and other terms appear individually with "and" the age range. In the case someone selects "No children", the page would display nothing.
b. For adult ages, if selected:
- "No Adults" = nothing displays except child ages
- "Young Adults" = "Young Adults" if no child ages selected, "and young adults" if child ages are selected
- "All Adults" = "Adults" if no child ages selected, "and Adults" if child ages are selected.
- "Senior Adults" = "Senior Adults" in all cases and would hide child ages if selected.
- Search page filters: In the case of the current age filter, it would look and function exactly as it currently does.
Is it possible to configure something like this? Are there parts that would seem too difficult. We thought this might be the easiest route to go. Since both fields would be required, we'd have to add the "N/A" or "No" option to each section, and we'd run the risk of someone choosing no for both. However, the benefits to this configuration would make filtering ages far more accurate and closer to what we intended. For instance, right now when someone makes a program for all ages, they select everything and Prenatal - Senior Adult appears. That also means when someone searches for something like "Senior Adult" they get programs that also includes all ages, drastically expanding the number of opportunities. Configuring this way would mean that when someone filters by "Senior Adult", they'd be more likely to get only those opportunities for Senior Adults only. The same thing, although to a lesser extent, would probably happen with Young Adults - results would be limited to programs for just Young Adults or Young Adults + Child Ages, and everything that was for all ages would no longer be included.