About Us

Senior Program Manager at the UMaine Center on Aging and Co-Director of the Consortium for Aging Policy Research and Analysis, Mary Lou brings her expertise in policy development and analysis, research and evaluation, and in adult learning to her work with Lifelong Maine. Mary Lou is a trained facilitator for the Gerontological Society of America's FrameWorks Reframing Aging and presents nationally on the topic. To read her full bio, click here. 

Email: marylou.ciolfi@maine.edu

Program Manager for the Community Connections Pilot and Co-Director of Lifelong Maine at the UMaine Center on Aging, Anna works closely with communities to further local age-friendly goals, expand resource connections, and increase capacity to connect residents to the services and programs they need to thrive. To read her full bio, click here. 

Email: anna.guest@maine.edu

Senior Program Manager at the Center on Aging and Co-Director of the Consortium for Aging Policy Research & Analysis, Dr. Oh is a community-engaged social worker and researcher committed to working alongside older adults to make our communities more inclusive. Patricia co-leads Lifelong Maine and advises AARP Livable on their AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities program and on rural livability. To read her full bio, click here. 

Email: patricia.oh@maine.edu

David is a Senior Project Manager at the Center on Aging and helps age-friendly/lifelong Communities learn about their communities. A data specialist, David enjoys helping leaders learn about their communities--from designing and implementing a survey to conducing focus groups and identifying assets that lifelong communities can deploy to make their city or town an even better place to grow up and grow old. To read his full bio, click here.

Email: david.wihry@maine.edu