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UMaine Center on Aging

The mission of the Center On Aging is to promote and facilitate activities on aging
in the areas of education, research and evaluation, and community service.

Programs

Research

  • Rural Caregiver Network Project Evaluation 2009-2012
    This 3 year grant-funded project is designed to enhance caregiver supports in Washington and Hancock counties. This project is funded through the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation and awarded to the Eastern Area Agency on Aging (lead agency). The project aims to strengthen the support network available to caregivers in Washington and Hancock Counties. The Center on Aging, in collaboration with caregiver network service providers and Steering Committee members, is conducting an evaluation of the services provided under this grant through the use of a caregiver survey protocol, training surveys, and service provision data collection procedures. In addition to evaluation services, the Center on Aging carried out needs and resources assessments in Washington and Hancock Counties to examine the needs of caregivers in this area, and the community assets available to address those needs. Needs and resources assessment documents are available for download on the Center on Aging Publications webpage.
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  • Legal Services for the Elderly Needs Assessment Project 2010-2012
    This is a 2 year project carried out in partnership with Maine Legal Services for the Elderly examining the legal needs of older adults in Maine with a focus on underserved populations.
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  • Safe Medicine Disposal for ME 2008-present
    The Safe Medicine Disposal for ME program is a free medicine mailback program for Maine residents who want to safely dispose of their unused and unwanted medicines in a convenient and anonymous way. Through the use of special prepaid envelopes that have been distributed through over 125 pharmacies, health care facilities, and law enforcement agencies across Maine, residents can send medicines through the US Postal Service to be safely destroyed.
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  • Get the Meds Out! 2011-2012
    The University of Maine Center on Aging and Maine Drug Enforcement Agency have partnered with the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension on the Get the Meds Out! project, which utilizes the same mailback model as the Safe Medicine Disposal for ME program operated by the UMaine Center on Aging. The University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension received a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to create a medicine mailback program in the state of Wisconsin which provides a convenient method of drug disposal with the goal of reducing prescription drug abuse and lessening the impact of pharmaceuticals on the Great Lakes.
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  • Maine Kinship Connections Project 2009-2012
    The Maine Kinship Connections Project, made possible by a Family Connections grant from the Children’s Bureau to the Maine DHHS Office of Child and Family Services, works to support kinship caregivers and children through the provision of comprehensive services and the building of capacity in the state to better serve these families.The University of Maine Center on Aging provides grants management and evaluation services for the project.
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  • Older Adult Impaired Driving 2011-2012
    Funded by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Community Health and Counseling Services, the Older Adult Impaired Driving Project is a research study examining community member perceptions of the issue of older adult impaired driving in Washington County.
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  • AmeriCorps Planning Grant on Clean Energy and Energy Conservation 2010-2011
    In 2010, the UMaine Center on Aging was awarded a planning grant from the Maine Commission for Community Service to design an AmeriCorps program that would provide direct services to older Mainers in the areas of energy conservation and clean energy. During the planning grant process, the Center on Aging was tasked with engaging in a needs assessment to better understand the community need for services in the areas of energy conservation and clean energy, and to design a program to address these needs.
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  • Research Project Archives
    Learn more about past research projects administered by the Center on Aging.
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