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.
AgingME and CAIEP engage students and community members alike on best practices for emergency care in patients with dementia.
This event was a collaboration between AgingME GWEP and the Center to Advance Interprofessional Education In practice.
In Case of Emergency: Making Team Based Considerations for Older Adults, People Living With Dementia
During this webinar, 260 attendees learned how to create a plan for disaster preparedness, particularly for older adults and those living with dementia. Participants learned how to offer effective support to people with dementia in times of an emergency.
Read more in the UNE News
“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 it into your curriculum. If you are in health or long term care, use 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.
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 directly from individuals living with dementia, information about 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
Resources
AgingME curates resources from our local partners and from the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program network at-large. Click the links below for relevant information.
