What is AgingME?
AgingME is Maine’s Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program. After a successful first round of funding, AgingME is funded again as one of 43 federally funded GWEP programs nationwide. AgingME aims to create a more age-capable workforce in healthcare and long-term care services and supports with a focus on rural and tribal communities.
Resources
AgingME gathers helpful resources from our local partners and from the national Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program. Use the links below to find helpful information.
Resource Spotlight
(NEW!) iHELP: Resources for Age Friendly Care
Click here to visit the site
Explore the principles and practices of Age-Friendly Health Systems, an initiative aimed at improving healthcare for older adults. This section introduces foundational concepts such as the 4Ms Framework (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, Mobility) developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Discover how these frameworks enhance care quality, safety, and outcomes for older patients through person-centered, evidence-based approaches.
This project was made possible in collaboration with MaineHealth and the MERGE Collaborative.
Free Access: AgingME + Dementia Action Alliance Cookbook
We partnered with the Dementia Action Alliance to create a cookbook by and for people living with dementia. The cookbook includes recipes from individuals living with dementia, guidance on organizing your kitchen to make it dementia-friendly, nutritional and healthy diet information, protective kitchen aides, and much more. The cookbook is available for free here:
https://daanow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CookingOurWay_062623-1.pdf
“Crabbit Old Woman”
With the help of Film Director/Executive Producer Alban Maino, founder of MemoryLane TV AgingME GWEP has created an updated video “Crabbit Old Woman,” a reflective poem that invites us to really see the individuals we care for and enhance Age Friendly, person-centered, care.
Click here to read a word from the film director.
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Call to action – If you are an educator, consider incorporating this video into your curriculum. If you are in health care or long-term care, use it as a tool to promote person-centered care. It is a powerful reminder of the profound impact that our care and understanding can have on the lives of those who depend on us.
Last Updated 11/12/25