Bob Timm

For more information, please contact Bob Timm, Vice President of Development, Seniors' Resource Center, 303.235.6918, btimm@SRCAging.org

For more information, please contact Bob Timm, Vice President of Development, Seniors' Resource Center, 303.235.6918, btimm@SRCAging.org

Speaker: Bob Timm, Vice President of DevelopmentCompany: Seniors' Resource Center - Building a Foundation for Independent Living Since 1978 - e-mail: btimm@SRCAAging.orgTopic: "Coordinated Care: An Effective and Essential Approach for Providing Senior Care"

Shown in back row, left to right, are: PR/marketing director Robert Wingate; major gifts officer Helen Pietranczyk; District Attorney Scott Storey; Vice President of Development Bob Timm; President/CEO John Zabawa; SRC-Evergreen Director Jane Weinberger; and board member Bob Zavodsky.

Bob TimmPresidentSeniors' Resource Center

It is modeled on a similar program in Spokane, Wash. with a 27-year track record, said Bob Timm, the vice-president of Development at the Seniors' Resource Center in Wheat Ridge.

The Jefferson Center and its partners chose to start in Clear Creek and Gilpin counties first because those places have small populations and a high rate of suicide among the elderly.Expansion into Jefferson, Boulder and Broomfield counties will follow, he said.

Key is finding potential gatekeepers, educating them on what to look for and providing them with the call center number.Some of the things that gatekeepers might note include changes in mental and emotional state, financial hardships, substance abuse, physical changes, lack of transportation, food or medical attention, and isolation in the older adults whom they see regularly.

Project partners estimate that over the three-year life of the grant, about half those referred, perhaps 1,200 people, actually will need help, Timm said.

• Bob Timm, development director for the Senior Resources Center, requested $5,000.