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.
“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.
