Reports and Resources
Maine State Plan: Addressing Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
2022 – 2027
https://www.alzimpact.org/Maine-State-Plan-2023
Maine Center for Economic Policy Report: The High Cost of Undervaluing Direct Care Work
U.S. Census Report: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2021
Adult Day Services in Maine: Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities
Economic Security of Older Women in Maine
Watch: Policy Matters: Women and aging – Press Herald
Maine State Plan on Aging 2020-2024
State Plan on Aging – Released September 2020
Maine Age Friendly State Plan
Maine State Plan On Aging: Needs Assessment
Summary of Findings March 2020
Re-imagining Residential Care “Think Group”
Read the report – released December 2020
2020 Report of the Commission to Study Long Term Care Workforce Issues
Commission to Study Long-term Care Workforce Issues – Released January 2020
2018 Maine Blueprint for Action on Healthy Aging
The MCOA issued the Maine Blueprint for Action on Healthy Aging in October 2018. It reflects the knowledge and wisdom of more than 350 professionals, public officials, community leaders and researchers who gathered at the 2018 Maine Wisdom Summit to build a plan for healthy aging. This forms the basis of our priority action for the next several years. The Blueprint lays out a plan to build a cost-effective support infrastructure that is fully aligned with our care delivery systems and that leverages the power of community efforts.
2019 Task Force on Healthy Aging in Communities Objectives
In February 2019, the MCOA convened a task force of municipal leaders, state officials and service providers to identify strategies to grow, strengthen and support municipal efforts to ensure healthy aging and to create a plan to better integrate municipal efforts with regional and statewide systems. Read the recommendations from the first phase of this work.
2018 Long Term Supports and Services Reform Recommendations
As a result of the Blueprint recommendations, in the fall of 2018, the MCOA convened a working group to identify Long Term Supports and Services (LTSS) minor and major reforms that could be made by the new administration. The recommended reforms that can be read here have been provided to the new leaders of the Department of Health and Health Services. We will be working in collaboration with them to implement some of these reforms.
2018 Housing Solutions for Maine’s New Age
In May 2018, the MCOA hosted Housing Solutions for Maine’s New Age, a facilitated housing planning conference held in Belfast, Maine. The conference brought together a diverse group of housing, planning, and finance professionals with municipal and community leaders to learn about and plan to develop emerging housing models that helps us age at home and in our communities. The conference focused on the following models, integrating concepts of universal design into each: Home Repair & Modification, Accessory Dwelling Units, Small Homes and Shared Housing. The day was broken down into two parts: in the morning plenary sessions, experts will present information on these models and solicit feedback from participants. After lunch, invited planning teams worked collaboratively to plan out different aspects of the four types of housing, including model ordinances, design aspects, code issues, finance and legal issues. Each team emerged from the planning process with recommendations which will form the basis of a conference report and plan of action. Click here to read our housing report.
2014 Blueprint for Action on Aging
The Blueprint for Action on Aging was issued in March 2014 with the input of more than 600 Maine leaders. It envisions Maine’s changing demographic as an opportunity and is the road map for the first few years of our work.
Age Friendly Communities
- Aging Friendly Communities Best Practices
- Community Conversations and Aging in Place Initiatives
- Creating an Aging Friendly Maine, One Community at a Time
- Village to Village Network (for a Maine example, visit At Home Downeast)
- Generations United – intergenerational initiatives
- Share the Care – VT Home Share Project
- Green House Project – alternative to traditional nursing home care
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Caregiving/Care Partners
Elder Abuse
Health & Well-Being
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Mutchler, Jan E.; Li, Yang; and Xu, Ping, “Living Below the Line: Economic Insecurity and Older Americans Insecurity in the States 2016” (2016). Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging Publications. Paper 13.
- A Portrait of Wellbeing: The Status of Seniors in Maine
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- On January 20th, the John T. Gorman Foundation issued a new report called “A Portrait of Wellbeing: The Status of Seniors in Maine”. It highlights economic, housing and social factors impacting older adults across 10 regions within the state. This report creates a much-needed baseline for measuring progress in these areas in the coming years. Among the publication’s findings:
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- – Maine has a higher percentage of seniors with low incomes than neighboring states: 29% compared to 21.1% in New Hampshire and 23.5% in Vermont.
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- – Seniors living in southeast Cumberland County are more likely to be poor or low-income when compared to those living in other areas of the state.
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- – Seniors in Oxford, Somerset, Franklin, and Piscataquis counties, as well as southeast Cumberland County, are more likely to live alone.
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- – Half of Maine’s senior renters live in homes where more than 30 percent of total household income is spent on housing costs.
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- – Across the state, low-income seniors consistently fare worse than their higher-income peers on indicators of well-being: they are more likely be burdened by housing costs, whether they rent or own, are less likely to be married, and are three times more likely to live alone.
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- Click the link above to read the full report.
Reframing Aging
To answer this question, a group of leading national aging organizations and funders commissioned the FrameWorks Institute to conduct a Strategic Frame Analysis®, an empirical investigation into the communications aspects of aging issues. In this toolkit, you’ll find this original research as well as a variety of materials to help you apply it. If you use communications to make the case for adapting society to the needs of an aging population, the evidence-based insights here will be useful to you.”
Click the link below for more information and resources: