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1. Senior Volunteer Services: Encore Leadership Program

   Looking for a way to leverage your senior volunteer services? Consider joining the Encore Leadership Corps. ENcorps recently hosted eight national community foundations in Portland in June, showing representatives how ENcorps is tapping the power of older adults … Continue

2. Maine Senior Guide’s Southern Maine Senior Expo 2012

   Save the Date September 25th from 10-7 come for an hour come for the day! Learn about the senior services from Lewiston to Kennebunk with extended hours for working caregivers. We are so excited to announce the … Continue

3. Preparing for Senior Care in Maine

   Where to start: here are 5 first steps to preparing for senior care in Maine 1. Establish/review your Health Care and Financial Power of Attorney If you haven’t already named someone as your power of attorney, do … Continue

4. Elder Abuse: Maine Woman Swindeled by Neighbor

   Elder abuse doesn’t have to be physicial. It can be mental coercion, or the sort of financial abuse that leaves someone penniless after a lifetime of work and saving. Ask Gwendolyn Swank of Pemaquid.  A trusted neighbor first … Continue

5. Filial Responsibility: will I have to pay for my parent’s care?

   Filial responsibility laws were in the news recently when a Pennsylvania court ruled in May that an adult son had to pay his mother’s $93,000 rehab bill.  She recovered and moved back to Greece before her medicaid application was … Continue

6. What is Macular Degeneration? Can macular degeneration be prevented?

   Macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision loss and blindness in people over 65. It is caused when a part of the retina in the eye, on the inside back wall of your eyeball,  begins to … Continue

7. Heat Rash: how to soothe or avoid heat rash in hot weather

   Wow, temps are supposed to hit 90 degrees in the next few days, and that might bring heat rash, heat stroke or heat exhaustion to a senior near you. Every summer, people suffer from these heat sicknesses. … Continue