Ross, Emery Agt

Elder Planning Advisors of Maine Inc, located in South Portland, ME, specializes in providing comprehensive resources and support for seniors and their families. Their services encompass a wide range of areas, including financial planning, healthcare management, and community resources tailored to enhance the quality of life for older adults. The organization also focuses on advocacy and education, offering valuable information on topics such as elder law, estate planning, and senior living options. By connecting seniors with essential services and support networks, Elder Planning Advisors of Maine Inc aims to empower individuals to age gracefully and with dignity. Generated from the website

HistoryThe agency was started in May 1981 with no clients in a rented room at Atlantic Place in South Portland. Ms. Henderson had a background working for a Portland Maine Insurance Agency. At age 45, with four children, she knew it was now or never to start her own business. It grew gradually and she obtained her own rented suite in Atlantic Place, South Portland. In 1987, she noticed a very run down house on Broadway in South Portland that she thought would be an excellent location, but it took many months to pursuade the owner to sell. The property was completely gutted out and done all over with the help of the Maine Savings Bank. An open house was held in 1988. In 1992, her youngest son Robert Henderson joined the business and is now the managing agent and vice president.SpecialtiesWe sell Auto, Home, & Life Insurance through companies such as Progressive, Dairyland, Foremost, Norfolk & Dedham, and Patrons Oxford Insurance Companies. JP Henderson Insurance Associates was established in 1981 as a family-owned and operated business. Our agency philosophy

Since 1978, Alpha One has stood at the forefront of the fight to establish and expand consumer-directed personal assistance, promoting this approach at the state and national level. As a result of Alpha One's recommendation and active support, the Maine Legislature established the Commission on Independent Living in 1985 to coordinate, improve and expand services for people with disabilities. Chaired by Alpha One's Founder and involving some 200 consumers in two years of study, the Commission issued its report, Toward Opportunity, that called for expanded personal assistance, information services, and financing for assistive technology and home modifications. Alpha One today manages three distinct consumer-directed personal assistance programs statewide, enabling more than 650 consumers to directly employ more than 2, 100 personal care assistants. Alpha One has been an innovator in the services to promote independent living. Some highlights from this history of innovation includes: In 1993, Alpha One was awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant for Job Trek to enable people with disabilities to direct and manage the transportation they need to get to work. Job Trek provided vouchers for consumers to design the transportation systems. As residents of a rural state with virtually no public transportation, many Job Trek consumers chose to hire neighbors, friends, and family to drive them to work. Several consumers became employed for the first time while participating in Job Trek. Alpha One has had the lead role in the creation, administration, promotion, and enhancement of Maine's Adaptive Equipment Loan Program, a model low-interest financing program for assistive technology. Since 1989, Alpha One has co-administered the Loan Program with the Finance Authority of Maine. Alpha One provides consumer services and markets the Loan Program statewide. Alpha One assists consumers in choosing assistive technology and completing their loan applications. Alpha One has also been instrumental in promoting the development of financial loan programs for assistive technology across the United States. In 1990 the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research recognized Alpha One's milestone efforts with the Adaptive Equipment Loan Program by funding Credit-Able. Alpha One assisted 16 states and organizations in launching consumer-directed, community-based, income-contingent loan programs for assistive technology. In 1991 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation selected Alpha One in its national effort to improve the health care of people with disabilities and to strengthen the financial viability of Independent Living Centers. Alpha One has worked to design a new generation of services that puts people with disabilities at the forefront of initiating and managing their health care. As a member of Maine's State Independent Living Council, Alpha One's active participation led to the 1994 Autumn Summit, the largest gathering of people with disabilities in Maine, and The Maine Opportunity, a 1995 report outlining how Maine can effect public policy that will provide choice in the lives of people with disabilities. Copyright 2011. Alpha One Enterprises. Privacy Policy. For more information please contact us at (800) 640-7200 (v/tty)