A $500,000 National Science Foundation research grant to the University of Maine to study self-driving vehicles aims to make the transportation of the future more accessible, usable and trustworthy. The project, co-led by Nicholas Giudice and Richard Corey, who run and direct the VEMI Lab at the University of Maine, is designed to improve user […]
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Maine Impact Week celebrates University of Maine faculty, students, community and their contributions to the social and economic advancement of the state and beyond. The public is invited to attend multiple events highlighting the impact of research and creative work produced by Maine’s research university the week of April 8–13. The featured event is the […]
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The University of Maine is leading multi-institution efforts to provide physicians with tools to help aging people avoid falls and to detect biomarkers associated with pancreatic cancer. Directed by UMaine engineering professor John Vetelino, researchers at UMaine, the University of Maine at Farmington and the University of Maine at Machias are collaborating with St. Joseph […]
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Maine Public published a report about the UMaine Center on Aging Senior Companion Program, which matches volunteers with older individuals who are isolated and living in rural areas. Loneliness is considered by some health experts to be a serious public health issue, Maine Public reported. This program works to address the issue through volunteers who […]
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Lenard Kaye, a professor of social work at the University of Maine and director of the UMaine Center on Aging, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show’s topic was the prevalence of loneliness and what can be done to reduce its health and social impacts.
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The aging-in-place movement has heightened the imperative that living environments meet the diversity of needs of older residents. Innovative approaches to making the residential environments of older adults safe, healthy, affordable and personalized continue to challenge policymakers, planners and service providers alike. High-functioning housing communities are crucial to realizing the highest quality of life of […]
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A Mount Desert Islander article about Bar Harbor’s Task Force on Aging mentioned the role of the University of Maine’s Center on Aging. The article cited a 2018 report published by the center saying that the task force was created to “provide services and advocacy that enable older residents of Bar Harbor to live in […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the fourth annual University of Maine Aging Initiative Summer Workshop Aug. 24 in Belfast. “Now at the system level all seven campuses are collaborating to work on this challenge that the state is facing around aging,” University of Maine System Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Innovation […]
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Sleep Review magazine carried a University of Maine news release about an invention developed by UMaine researchers that can detect early symptoms of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. Activas Diagnostics LLC has received a $1 million Small Business Innovation Research Award from the National Institute of Health’s Institute on Aging, according to the release. […]
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Maintaining wellness across different dimensions contributes to older adults’ sense of independence, according to a University of Maine research team. The team, led by Kelley Strout, a UMaine School of Nursing professor, conducted a study involving a random sample of 128 male and female U.S. residents age 65 and older living in communities in 22 […]
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