Health, Health Care, and Aging in Prison

In addition to being able to watch the event via Zoom, it will also be live-streamed on the UNE website and available on Facebook Live.

Prison residents are an invisible population whose health care needs are underserved and not well understood. Learn more about health and health care delivery in Maine’s correctional facilities including for the aging population in need of assisted living and hospice care. 

This informative and interactive presentation is open to community health and behavioral health professionals and stakeholders, interprofessional UNE health professions students, and UNE  faculty and staff. A panel presentation, breakouts, and case study analyses will inform the audience about the health and health care delivery in Maine’s correctional facilities including for the aging population in need of assisted living and hospice care.

You will be able to:

• Review corrections health
• Describe aging in corrections
• Discuss the Assisted Living Unit in Charleston 

Competencies:

• Communication
• Roles and Responsibilities

This event was designed in collaboration with UNE School of Social Work TRIAD Grant, UNE Center for Excellence in Aging and Health, and Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving ME