Resources for your age-friendly journey
No matter where you are in your lifelong community journey, we have the resources needed to guide you through building, planning and sustaining your initiative. Through the work with communities, we have collected a treasure trove of resources and assembled them by topic. To start exploring simply click on any area below and check out key resources, inspirational quotes and videos, and more, much more!
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The purpose of the Guide is to lead you through the Age-Friendly, Lifelong Community Process--engaging community, developing a plan, implementing change, and celebrating accomplishments. You will also find advice about organizing your work, including as a regional initiative.
Lifelong Maine Projects
community Connections
Lifelong maine Topics:
Toolkit created as a guide for Lifelong Communities in Maine starting or expanding their journey to become more dementia inclusive.
Lifelong maine topics
A little more than 13% of Mainers 65 and older experience food insecurity. They struggle to afford fresh, healthy food and have to choose between food and other necessities. Our Lifelong Communities have developed solutions that are as unique as the communities themlselves.
Lifelong Community Topics
Do you want to get some new ideas for recruiting volunteers, keeping them energized? Rising Tide Volunteer Solutions developed a complete guide to get you started!
Lifelong maine Topics
There are more than 35 active volunteer transportation programs in Maine.
People who need a ride can search for a program in their community.
The Volunteer Transportation Manual has everything you need--whether you are starting up a new program or adding to an existing one.