Aging

This special issue of Maine Policy Review on the topic of aging presents a timely and comprehensive overview of the ramifications presented by this demographic shift. Guest editor Len Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, has assembled a distinguished group of contributors who tackle topics ranging from health care, housing, technological innovation, and the economic implications of Maine’s age’s structure to creativity and aging, leadership, age-friendly communities, and the role of philanthropy in responding to community aging. Throughout, the authors explore the policy and planning implications of the aging demographic in the context of Maine’s status as not only the country’s oldest but also its most rural state. 

All Items

• A Call to Action: Maine’s Colleges and Universities Respond to an Aging Population

  Jeffrey Hecker, Marilyn Gugliucci (Author)

  36-41

• Aging, Diversity, and Difference in Rural Perspective

  Douglas Kimmel (Author)

  74-75

• Creativity and Aging

  Kathleen Mundell (Author)

  76-79

• Editor's Letter

  Ann Acheson, Laura Lindenfeld (Author)

  6

• Getting From Here to There: Maine's Elder Transportation Challenge

  Katherine Freund (Author)

  49-55

• Home Care in Maine: The Worker's Experience

  Sandra Butler (Author)

  113-114

• Immigrant Elders: What Can Maine Learn from Other States?

  Linda Silka (Author)

  69-73

• Keep Them Rocking at Home: Thriving in Place

  Becky Boober (Author)

  111-112

• Maine’s Initiatives in Geriatric Medical Care: Commentary from the Front Lines

  Cliff Singer, Roger Renfrew (Author)

  89-98

• Margaret Chase Smith Essay: Priorities of the U.S. Senate Aging Committee

  Susan Collins (Author)

  8-9

• Never Too Old to Lead: Activating Leadership among Maine's Older Adults

  Jennifer Crittenden, Lelia DeAndrade (Author)

  80-85

• Older Workers at L.L.Bean

  Wendy Estabrook (Author)

  67-68

• Organizing Voices in Maine to Support Successful Aging

  David Wihry (Author)

  86-88

• Shaping the Health and Long-Term-Care Infrastructure Serving Older Adults: Historical Trends and Future Directions

  Julie Fralich (Author)

  99-110

• Technology and Aging: An Emerging Research and Development Sector in Maine

  Carol Kim, David Neivandt, Lenard Kaye, Jennifer Crittenden (Author)

  29-35

• The Age-Friendly Community Movement in Maine

  Patrica Oh (Author)

  56-59

• The Aging and Developmental Disabilities Networks: Can the Silos Be Dismantled?

  Lenard Kaye, Lucille Zeph, Alan Cobo-Lewis (Author)

  115-118

• The Demographic Transformation in Maine (and Beyond) Is in Full Swing

  Lenard Kaye (Author)

  10-12

• The Economic Implications of Maine’s Changing Age Structure

  James Breece, Glenn Mills, Todd Gabe (Author)

  13-22

• The Emergence of Age-Friendly Communities: Highlighting the Town of Bucksport

  James Bradney (Author)

  60-61

• The Emergence of Age-Friendly Communities: The City of Bangor

  Benjamin Sprague (Author)

  62

• The Evolution of Elder Housing Design and Development

  John Gallagher (Author)

  42-48

• The Future Is Now: Legal Planning for Elders

  Jennifer Eastman (Author)

  63-66

• The Role of Foundation Grantmakers in Responding to Community Aging: John T. Gorman Foundation

  Tony Cipollone (Author)

  119-121

• The Role of Foundation Grantmakers in Responding to Community Aging: Maine Community Foundation

  Meredith Jones (Author)

  122-124