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Aging
Consistent with national trends, residents of Greater Denver are living longer. The number of adults over age 60 and their proportion within the population are expected to increase dramatically in the decades ahead. With extended life spans come greater physical, emotional, social and financial challenges for seniors and those who care for them. Rose Community Foundation believes it is important to support efforts that enable older adults to live independently and maintain a high quality of life for as long as possible. The Foundation's Aging program area places particular emphasis on efforts to address the needs of low- and moderate-income seniors.
The goal of the Aging program area is to promote and enhance services for older adults and their caregivers so that frail and vulnerable seniors in our community may remain safe and independent in their own homes. Caregivers are defined as family members, significant others, neighbors, friends or volunteers. Rose Community Foundation will achieve this goal by supporting programs, services, and initiatives that address the following priorities:
Direct In-Home and Community-Based Services
Rose Community Foundation supports programs that provide quality and adequate assistance for activities of daily living including care management, personal care, nutrition, transportation, shopping, light housekeeping, safety, mobility and caregiver support.
Transportation
Rose Community Foundation is spearheading several projects that will increase senior mobility through expanded and improved access to transportation services.
End-of-Life Care
Rose Community Foundation is spearheading cooperative interagency efforts to improve the availability and quality of end-of-life care.
Higher consideration will be given to requests directly addressing one or more of the priorities as well as featuring one or more of the following components:
- Public awareness and information that reaches a large number of caregivers and/or older adults.
- Strategies for systemic change.
- Collaboration and coordination among service providers to increase the availability and quality of services.
- Impact on significant numbers of older adults, caregivers and/or organizations.
- Cultural relevance.
- Economic and/or social need.
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