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Margaret Chase Smith Essay: Priorities Of The U.S. Senate Aging Committee, Susan M. Collins
Margaret Chase Smith Essay: Priorities Of The U.S. Senate Aging Committee, Susan M. Collins
Maine Policy Review
Senator Susan Collins of Maine discusses the three major priorities of the U.S. Senate Aging Committee: investing in biomedical research targeting diseases that disproportionately affect older Americans, such as Alzheimer’s and diabetes; protecting seniors against financial exploitation and scams; and improving retirement security.
Ready Or Not—Here They Come!, Laurie Lachance
Ready Or Not—Here They Come!, Laurie Lachance
Maine Policy Review
Laurie Lachance, Maine’s state economist, outlines the economic implications of the “tidal wave” of aging baby boomers that will shortly be hitting Maine, and what might be done to prepare for it. She asks whether Maine has appropriate housing, transportation, and health care services to care for the needs of an aging population, and how Maine will fund the needed infrastructure with a smaller labor force. Lachance notes that there is still time to prepare. Seniors are and will be living longer, healthier lives; they are and will be increasingly engaged in social, cultural and educational activities; this and future …