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Aging and Disability Resource Center

Answer any question about long-term support services:

The three Aging & Disability Resource Centers in Maine serve as “one-stop-shops” to answer questions from older adults, or from any individuals with disabilities, about a wide range of in-home, community-based, and institutional services.

Aging and Disability Resource Centers are expert at answering questions in-home care services and all kinds of long-term support. Maine’s three ADRC sites:

  • provide information and assistance to individuals needing either public or private long-term care resources,
  • serve professionals seeking assistance on behalf of their clients’ long-term care needs,
  • serve individuals planning for their future long-term care needs, and
  • serve as the entry point to publicly administered long-term supports including those funded under Medicaid, the Older Americans Act and state revenue programs.

Goal: Empowerment: The goal of these Aging & Disability Resource Centers is to empower callers to make informed choices about long-term support and to streamline peoples’ access to long-term support.

People Served:Maine’s Aging & Disability Resource Centers are designed to serve all older adults, people with disabilities and their caregivers, who have long-term care community or program needs.

To contact an Aging & Disability Resource Center in your area:

Aging and Disability Connections – DASH

Counties ServedPiscataquis, Penobscot, Washington, Hancock
ADRC Coordinators Val Sauda – Director, Aging and Disability Connections- DASH
Ted Perrin – Associate, Aging and Disability Connections- DASH
Website: http://www.eaaa.org/dashnetwork.shtml
www.eaaa.org
www.easternagencyonaging.org
Phone: (207) 941-2865
1-800-432-7812
Fax: (207) 941-2869
TTY: (207) 992-0150
Address: Eastern Agency on Aging
450 Essex Street
Bangor, ME 04401
Hours of Business: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday

Seniors Plus – Aging and Disability Connections

Counties ServedFranklin, Oxford, Androscoggin
ADRC Coordinators Connie Jones – Director,
SeniorsPlus - Aging and Disability Connections
Website: http://www.seniorsplus.org/aaoa
Phone: 1-800-427-1241
207-795-4010
Fax: 207-795-4009
TTY: 207-795-7232
Address: 8 Falcon Road
P.O. Box 659
Lewiston, ME 04243-0659
Hours of Business: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday

SpectrumLink - Aging and Disability Connections

Counties ServedKnox, Lincoln, Waldo, Somerset, Sagadahoc, & Kennebec
ADRC Coordinators Leslie Bray – VP Community Services, Senior Spectrum
Martha Cushing – ADRC Coordinator, SpectrumLink - Aging and Disability Connections
Website: www.seniorspectrum.com
Phone: 1-800-639-1553
Fax: 207-622-7857
TTY: 1-800-464-8703
Address: One Weston Court Suite 203
Augusta, ME 04330
Hours of Business: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday

More Background:

The Aging and Disability Resource Center national initiative is funded by means of a collaboration between the U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA) and the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Maine received its first grant to develop an Aging & Disability Resource Center in 2003. Maine’s first ADRC was in the greater Bangor area, through the Eastern Agency on Aging and its partners. At the same time, a coalition of partners also began the process of ADRC development in the service areas of SeniorSpectrum Agency on Aging and SeniorsPlus Agency on Aging.

Maine was also successful in the second round of grants in 2006, winning a 2-year grant to develop two new full-scale ADRCs with SeniorSpectrum and SeniorsPlus Agencies on Aging, and their partners, which will bring Maine’s complement of full-scale ADRCs to three.

The names we have selected for our three sites accomplish the dual objectives of invoking the common “aging and disability” connection among all three as well as to distinguish each site individually, as follows:

  • Aging and Disability Connections - DASH;
  • Seniors Plus - Aging and Disability Connections; and
  • SpectrumLink - Aging and Disability Connections.

We expect to apply for a third grant in 2008 to move toward development of ADRCs in the three remaining counties not yet directly served; i.e. York, Cumberland, and Aroostook.

Statewide Steering Committee

In addition to local steering committees established in each of the three ADRC service areas, we also have a Committee helping to steer this initiative at the state level;

ADRC state-level Steering Committee
(alphabetical by agency, then by last name)

  1. Alpha One
    1. Zahira DuVal - Benefits Specialist
  2. Aging and Disability Connections – DASH
    1. Tom Boyd - Technology
    2. Noëlle Merrill – Director, Eastern AA
    3. Ted Perrin – Associate, Aging and Disability Connections- DASH
    4. Val Sauda – Director, Aging and Disability Connections- DASH
  3. Maine Department of Health and Human Services
    1. Ron Bansmer Office of Integrated Access & Support
    2. Bill Hughes Office of Adults with Cognitive & Physical Disability Services
    3. Cheryl Ring Commissioner’s Office
    4. Diana Scully Office of Elder Services
    5. Sharon Sprague Regional Director
    6. Holly Stover Regional Director
    7. Mary Walsh Office of Elder Services
    8. Ron Welch Director, Office of Adult Mental Health Services
  4. Seniors Plus – Aging and Disability Connections
    1. Pam Allen – Director, SeniorsPlus
    2. Connie Jones – Director, SeniorsPlus - Aging and Disability Connections
    3. Mike Stair – Director, Information Services
  5. SpectrumLink - Aging and Disability Connections
    1. Martha Cushing – ADRC Coordinator, SpectrumLink- Aging and Disability Connections
    2. Muriel Scott, President/CEO, Senior Spectrum
    3. Toby Simon – VP Community Services, Senior Spectrum

For more information:

Feel free to contact any of the following people at the state level for more information about Maine’s Aging & Disability Resource Center initiative:

Diana Scully, Director Office of Elder Services
Department of Health and Human Service
442 Civic Center Drive
Augusta ME 4333
(207) 287-9200 work
(207) 287-9229 fax
Diana.Scully@maine.gov

Cheryl Ring, Integrated Systems Internal Consultant
Maine Department of Health and Human Services
Maine DHHS. State House Station 11
Augusta ME 04333
(207) 287-5160 work
cheryl.ring@maine.gov

Mary Walsh, Director of Community Programs, Office of Elder Services
Maine Department of Health and Human Services
State House Station 11. 442 Civic Center Drive
Augusta Maine 04333
(207) 287-9207 work
mary.walsh@maine.gov