Finding Help : Health and wellness

A listing of fitness and wellness programs tailored to seniors that can help encourage healthy diets and habits, manage chronic disease, and maintain balance to prevent injuries from falls.

Click on the resource names listed below to view details and contact information

Healthy Maine Partnerships

The Healthy Maine Partnerships are programs and organizations dedicated to promoting health all over Maine. Their website contains information and tips about nutrition and some chronic conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.


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Long-term care insurance: Should you buy it?

This calculator from The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants will help you decide whether it is financially possible and prudent to buy long-term care insurance.

Read Consumer Reports on long-term care coverage. (2012)

Institute of Certified Public Accountants


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Maine Medical Center Geriatric Center

Outpatient geriatric programs. Services include a Falls Clinic for strength and balance, general geriatric assessments, and a dementia evaluation center.

In dementia evaluations, a collaborative team consisting of a geriatrician, nurse and social workers can make a diagnosis of dementia or memory disorder, provide information about the disease, and offer access to resources for appropriate care.

MaineGeneral Home Care and Hospice services

In-home health and rehabilitation services, hospice care, and palliative care.


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Multimedia: Mastery of Aging Well class

An online course in five modules presented by Oregon State University and AARP. Topics include memory, depression, medication and exercise later in life. Each module has a presentation (without audio), study questions and an action plan to download and follow.


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National Council on Aging

National advocacy groups offers a variety of resources that promote healthy lives for older adults.


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National Safety Council

The National Safety Council provides tips for helping older adults avoid falls.


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Ounce of Prevention

A free health and wellness educational series “dedicated to your good health,” associated with Mid Coast Hospital

  • Phone: (207) 373-3646
  • Location: 58 Baribeau Drive, Brunswick, Maine 04011
  • Visit the website

State of Maine fitness and wellness programs

Programs in chronic disease management, fitness programs, and balance programs to promote healthy activity for people aged 60 and older.


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Stein Institute for Research on Aging videos

The Stein Institute for Research on Aging provides a series of videos on issues including the importance of exercise, chronic disease management and sleep.


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Video: The perfect place to enjoy a long life

This short video entitled “The good life on Swan’s Island” and subtitled “The perfect place to enjoy a long life” was made by a Swan’s Island resident with the support of The University of Maine’s Center on Aging.

The subject of the film is 95-year old Earl Lowell who has been enjoying retirement on the island for 30 years.


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Videos on exercise and health

AARP provides 65 videos on exercise and the benefits of being active.

The videos range from strengthening arms, improving balance to more active pursuits – including one on the Brunswick bike path.


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Videos: Senior health issues

The National Institutes of Health provides a range of videos on senior heath issues.

Among the topics covered in these short, informational videos are exercise and physical activity, shingles, taking medicine, loss of smell, medicare, loss of vision and sleep and aging.


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