The Bangor Daily News shared a University of Maine news release about an AmeriCorps Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) grant that will be used to support volunteers age 55 and older in Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis and Washington counties. The Center on Aging will continue to administer the RSVP program, which leverages seniors’ experience to […]
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News Center Maine talked with Lenard Kaye, a University of Maine professor of social work and director of the Center on Aging, about a recent grant award to UMaine and the assisted living center The Cedars in South Portland. The $400,000 grant will be used to develop and pilot a person-centered care designation of excellence […]
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WABI (Channel 5) mentioned the University of Maine Center on Aging in a story intended to raise awareness of local hospice care services and resources.
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The Bangor Daily News published a guest column by Lenard Kaye, University of Maine professor of social work and director of the Center on Aging, highlighting a lack of knowledge about hospice and end of life care services among the public and medical providers in the Bangor area. Kaye is a founding member of the […]
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The University of Maine McGillicuddy Humanities Center (MHC) will host a two-part virtual series on defining race and confronting racism 4-5 p.m. Nov. 19 and Nov. 30 in partnership with Native American Programs, the departments of Anthropology, Communications and Journalism, Philosophy, Political Science, and the School of Social Work. The Nov. 19 session, titled […]
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Claudia Cummings earned her Bachelor of Arts in social work from the University of Maine in May 2020. She knows her success at UMaine can be attributed, at least in part, to her personal engagement during her undergraduate years. But she also learned that before changing the world students must find their niche. After changing […]
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Centralmaine.com advanced the 15th annual Clinical Geriatrics Colloquium, Creating Age Friendly Health Systems, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Oct. 27 via Zoom. Conference goals include examining the progress of Age-Friendly Health Systems nationally and in Maine, and understanding the social determinants of health for older adults, particularly in rural settings, among others. A […]
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The University of Maine Center on Aging and UMaine Medicine are promoting an online chat series to help Maine citizens 60 and older and particularly high-risk populations stay healthy, active and safe during the pandemic. Sessions from UMaine Health Connection Chats run from 11 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays. The series includes: Sept. 23: The […]
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Registration is now open for the University of Maine Center on Aging’s 15th Annual Clinical Geriatrics Colloquium, Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems, which will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Oct. 27. This colloquium, offered via Zoom, explores the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement and the implications of the movement for optimizing the quality of […]
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An opinion piece by Lenard Kaye, professor of social work and director of the Center on Aging at the University of Maine, was featured in CentralMaine.com as part of a series authored by members of the Maine Scholars Strategy Network to address public policy challenges in Maine. Kaye’s column identified the obvious and subtle impacts […]
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