BRIDGTON – Bridgton Hospital will host a volunteer Medicare advocate on-site, sponsored by the Southern Maine Agency on Aging, one day each week for private, one-on-one counseling to answer questions on Medicare.

No reservations are necessary and persons don’t have to be a senior to use the service. Family, friends and relatives of seniors are invited to take part as well. Bring documents that might be helpful for the advocate to review.

The service will be offered from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesdays, beginning May 11, at the hospital. Check in with the central registration receptionist.

The Medicare advocate volunteer is Stanley Cohen, a Bridgton resident and retiree, who has been trained by SMAA for the volunteer role. Educated at Boston University, Cohen had a long career as a marketing executive in Cambridge, Mass.

Since moving to Maine in 1977, he has been a marina owner on Sebago Lake, a school business manager in Gorham, and in 2000 retired after a 10-year stint as director of financial operations at Bridgton Academy.

His organizational experiences include several board memberships in Massachusetts and in Maine: School Administrative District 61 (chairman), State Adult Education Advisory Panel, Bridgton Hospital, Bridgton Historical Society and LEA. Cohen has also been a long-time teacher in adult education programs. He lives in Bridgton with his wife, Barbara. They have six children.