The University of Maine Center on Aging and the University of Southern Maine’s Catherine Cutler Institute have formed a new policy partnership in association with the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and the University of Maine Institute of Medicine to focus exclusively on aging-related policy issues. The new Consortium for Aging Policy Research and Analysis […]
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Join us on Wednesday, May 25 from 11:30 am to 4 pm for the sixth annual Northern Light Research Expo in a series of virtual sessions by ZOOM. Online attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about the innovative research being performed at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center and throughout our Maine community. […]
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The event took place on April 11 during Impact Week. Watch a recording of the event. UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy will offer opening remarks when the UMaine Institute of Medicine brings together a panel of leaders from the state to discuss rural health in Maine. Moderated by Dr. Kelley Strout, Director of the UMaine School […]
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The Maine Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS), a longitudinal study aimed at exploring hypertension, cardiovascular risk factors and aging as a predictors of cognitive functioning. The MSLS is began in 1974 in Syracuse, New York, with Merrill Elias as Principal Investigator. This first project was supported by a research grant from the National Institute on Aging […]
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Drug addiction and drug-induced mortality have received a good deal of attention nationally and in Maine in recent years. The authors review overall trends in the app terns of drug overdoses that have continued for nearly two decades, including those involving opioid pharmaceuticals, and discuss the recent resurgence of the illicit drugs heroin and non-pharmaceutical […]
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For many people with disability and their families, faith communities can be a powerful source of natural community support and connection, was well as a doorway to other important outcomes in the areas of relationships, work, community living, recreation, and service. The university of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies CCIDS is one […]
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