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Ken Jenson
Chair

Ken Jenson is the owner of Amada Senior Care. Amada has been in business for just over 5 years. They are a State Licensed Home Care company that loves to work with Seniors. They were just voted Best in the Springs for 2017 in two categories. Amada specializes in helping Seniors with Activities of Daily living. Ken has coached his kids in Little league for the past 29 years. He also coached YMCA basketball for 31 years. He has been a scout master and has worked with youth his whole life. Before Amada, Ken owned a company that renovated military housing all over the USA. “Serving Seniors is the best thing I have ever done. I love working with Families and helping solve problems. This is the best job I have ever had”.

Magdalene Lim, PsyD.
Board Member

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Dr. Magdalene Lim is a licensed clinical psychologist and Director of the UCCS Aging Center. She is a Medicare provider and oversees the clinical training of graduate-level geropsychology students who provide both psychological interventions and cognitive assessments to older adults and their families. A graduate of the Palo Alto University, PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium Program, Dr. Lim completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester Medical Center and holds a post-degree certificate in family intervention. In her two-year postdoctoral residency, she provided integrated services at a family medicine residency clinic and served as an educator for internal medicine residents at an affiliated hospital caring for geriatric patients. Other interprofessional collaborative work included a team approach to caring for oncology patients in a department of surgery. Specialty interests include geropsychology, neuropsychology (geriatric population), multiculturalism, and collaborative care with interprofessional teams.

Mary Swantek
Board Member

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Mary Swantek is the Operations and Program Director of the Colorado Springs Senior Center and has been working at the center since 2014. The Colorado Springs Senior Center is an innovative partnership with the City of Colorado Springs and the YMCA. Mary attended Abilene Christian University where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Exercise Science and a certificate in Gerontology. Mary has experience working in Continuing Care Retirement Communities running their activity programs in addition to working in non medical home healthcare. She has a gift for working with older adults and it has been her passion since she was a child. She is dedicated to reduce social isolation for older adults by getting them to know themselves, be connected with others and find a purpose in their later years.

Martha Barton
Board Member

Hayley Gleason
Board Member

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Hayley is a Gerontologist with expertise in aging policy, long-term care and the direct care workforce. Prior to her role as the Older Adult Policy Advisor at the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing, Hayley served as the Interim Executive Director and Assistant Executive Director of the Home Care Aide Council. Hayley is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Gerontology at UMass Boston where her research focuses on the recruitment, retention, training and supervision of the home care aide workforce. She has presented and published extensively on the direct care workforce, including speaking at over 50 state and national conferences and publishing in the Journal of Aging and Mental Health, Geriatric Nursing, and the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.

Jonathan Liebert
Board Member

Daniel O'Rear
Board Member

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Daniel joined the Board in 2018. He is the Executive Director of the Myron Stratton Home Foundation, the oldest private foundation in Colorado. Prior to arriving at his current position, Daniel spent 22 years at Goodwill Industries serving as Chief Financial Officer and later as President of the Goodwill Industrial Services Corp. Daniel has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado and is a CPA. Daniel resides in Colorado Springs with his wife Sandy. They have three children and one grand-daughter all living in Colorado.

Lee Patke
Board Member

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Lee has twenty-eight years in corporate and non-profit settings that combined business operations, execution of strategic plans, workforce readiness, and service to clients across a variety of settings. Lee has served as Executive Director for Greccio Housing in Colorado Springs since 2010. He earned a Bachelor’s of Arts degree from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX, and a Master’s of Science in Social Work for the University of Texas in Arlington.

Paula Pollet
Immediate Past Chair

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Paula has been part of the investment management and fiduciary community of Colorado Springs for over 40 years and she is currently Vice President of Wealth Management at Ent Credit Union. She is a member and Past President of the Colorado Springs Estate Planning Council and attends the El Paso County Bar Probate Section. Paula is a board member and immediate Past President of IIAC, current Secretary of the Cheyenne Village Board, President Emeritus of the Pikes Peak Community Foundation, a member of the Pikes Peak Library District Foundation Board and a member of the Southern Colorado Women‘s Chamber of Commerce having served on their Foundation board also.

Shawn Raintree
Board Member

Dayton Romero
Board Member

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Dayton currently serves as a Director of Senior Assistance Programs at Silver Key Senior Services. He holds a B.A. in Psychology with a Minor in Gerontology from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Currently, he is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Public Health with a concentration in Leadership & Public Practice at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

BJ Scott
Board Member Co-Founder

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In December 2014, BJ stepped down from a 20 year career at Peak Vista Community Health Centers that included ten years as its President & CEO as well as Executive Director of the Peak Vista Foundation, a separate nonprofit that she helped form in 2005. She currently serves on the following Boards: Innovations in Aging - an organization she co-founded; The Colorado Springs Health Foundation - a founding Board member serving 3 years as chair; and the USBank Advisory Board.

Judy Scott, PhD RN
Board Member

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Judy Scott teaches community and public health to nursing students at UCCS. Her teaching goals include improvement in geriatric content in nursing programs and interest in professional practice with older adults. Her research interests are aging in place, and cognitive and sensory losses related to adjustment to assisted living and community settings. She provides connections between the university and local healthcare and service organizations

Sarah Steph, CPA
Board Member

David Lord
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Babara Yalich
Board Member Co-Founder

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