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1. Maine: Your Area Agencies on Aging at Work

   The Older Americans Act of 1965 created the Administration on Aging as the federal level advocate and coordinator of services for the elderly.  Area Agencies on Aging were created as the local-state agencies charged with advocating for … Continue

2. What Do Seniors Do Online?

   Over the past two years Advantage Home Care has seen significant growth in online inquiries about its services directly from elderly clients. In doing some research on the trends in senior use of the web I have … Continue

3. Helping Adult Siblings Overcome Family Conflict: the 50-50 Rule

   When my older brother wouldn’t visit my dad during his last few weeks at the Veterans Home in South Paris, I was angry. I had to make the trip from Freeport to South Paris more frequently, because … Continue

4. Maine Medicaid: What’s Your Plan Part II

   In my last blog, (Maine Medicaid: What’s Your Plan?) we talked about Medicaid/MaineCare financial qualification. It boils down to this – you can ask the state for help, but before they’ll help you, you need to spend … Continue

5. To Garden or Not to Garden

   —that is the question:—‎ Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The bugs and weeds of outrageous (but typical) vegetable gardens,‎ Or to take arms against a sea of carrots imported from California, And by growing … Continue

6. Critical Conversations with Aging Parents: Start Now

   Gail Sheehy, author of many books concerning the transitions we all make over our lives, and the universal problems, challenges and opportunities involved with those passage, recently wrote an article for USA Today on having critical conversations … Continue

7. Conversations with Parents: Start Now

   Gail Sheehy, author of many books concerning the transitions we all make over our lives, and the universal problems, challenges and opportunities involved with those passage, recently wrote an article for USA Today on having critical conversations … Continue