UMaine Health Connection Chat: Growing with Maine’s Lifelong Communities
Join us to learn about Maine’s age-friendly, lifelong community movement and to hear how the Lifelong Community Fellow program, a project of the UMaine Center on Aging and Maine Community Foundation, has increased the capacity of Maine communities to make changes that enhance the health and well-being of residents. The Lifelong Community Fellow Program matches established lifelong community leaders (Fellows), with communities that can benefit from their skills, experience, and talents. We will start with examples of how lifelong community leaders have worked with residents and local organizations to co-create community changes that benefit residents of all ages in their own community. Then, Lifelong Community Fellows and the communities they have worked with will share how they have participated in and benefitted from the relationship.
Karen Campbell, Lifelong Community Fellow, Bangor Livable Communities
Ellen Ceppetelli, Chair, Eliot Aging in Place Committee
Candy Eaton, Coordinator, Age-Friendly Sullivan
Laura K. Lee, Director of Grantmaking, Maine Community Foundation
Patricia Oh, Program Manager, UMaine Center on Aging
Jean Saunders, Coordinator, Age-Friendly Saco
This event is organized by the UMaine Center on Aging and sponsored by the UMaine Institute of Medicine, Eastern Area Agency on Aging, and AgingME: Maine’s Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP).