Tag Archives: senior options
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Quit Smoking: Here’s Help.
The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing and Healthy Androscoggin are collaborating to assist tobacco users to quit tobacco for life. An informational session for Quit for Life: Help for Quitting Tobacco, will be held … Continue
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Bucket List: not just a New Year’s Resolution
New Year’s Resolutions, Bucket Lists, and Other Ways to Live Your Best Life by Dr. Len Kayes, guest writer in MAINE SENIORS Magazine. The 2007 film The Bucket List portrays two terminally ill men, Edward Cole and … Continue
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Piper Shores in Scarborough, ME Earns Ranking for Best Nursing Homes
Holbrook at Piper Shores Receives 5-Star Ranking in U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 Best Nursing Homes Holbrook Health Center at Piper Shores has received a high ranking of five stars overall in U.S. News & World Report’s … Continue
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Maine State Plan on Aging: Add Your Opinion on Home Care
To better understand the needs of senior caregivers in Maine, and whether they’re being met, the Maine Association of Area Agencies on Aging is conducting an online caregiver survey. It’s interesting and easy. If you are a home care provider or … Continue
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Meals on Wheels: Feeding the Elderly
Congratulations are in order for Spectrum Generations, which prepares and delivers nearly 300,000 meals annually to homebound seniors and disabled adults living in six Central Maine counties as well as the towns of Brunswick and Harpswell. In the … Continue
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High School Community Service Project: Empowering Seniors with Technology
Empowering Seniors With Technology by Cynthia Sargent, former Yarmouth teacher, urges increased support for senior computer literacy and suggests that high schools students could earn their community service hours by developing computer tutoring programs for seniors. In 2003 my 84 … Continue
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Maine Home Care: knowing when to get help at home
Knowing When to Get Help Richard Blumenthal, President, Advantage Home Care LLC As we age and physical changes occur, we or someone we love may not be able to effectively deal with these changes. Some activities of … Continue