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AARP
AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons) is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to addressing the needs and interests of persons 50 and older. Through information and education, advocacy and service, we seek to enhance the quality of life for all by promoting independence, dignity and purpose.
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Administration on Aging Information on Older Persons and Services for the Elderly
AoA's "Elder Page" site contains many resources for the elderly that can be useful for attorneys as well. There is a large nationwide searchable directory to 230 national and local agencies, health associations, and organizations. There is a large compilation of general and statistical materials on-line.
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Aginghelp.com
Aginghelp is for the professional serving the older American through community and in-home services. This help is often identified as senior, aging or elderly services by organizations that include senior centers, day-care facilities, health clinics, focal point agencies, area agencies, county departments, state units, or other organizations. The site includes Job Openings, Vendor Resources, a Sharing/Assistance area and Planning Scanning information. For the latest updates, check out What's New.
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Alliance for Aging Research
The nation's leading non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and accelerating the pace of medical discoveries to vastly improve the universal human experience of aging and health.
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Alzheimer's Association
The Alzheimer's Association is the largest national voluntary health organization dedicated to funding research into the causes, treatments, prevention and cure of Alzheimer's disease and to providing support to the four million Americans with the disease, their families and caregivers.
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Alzheimer's Disease Research
The American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization that has dedicated over 30 years to funding research on age-related and degenerative diseases, educating the public about these diseases, and providing emergency financial assistance to Alzheimer's disease patients and their caregivers.
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Alzinfo.org
Alzinfo.org is a tool of the Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation to educate people about this devastating disease. The mission of the website is to educate, engage and create an online community with 24 hours a day, 7 days a week access to information and support via online chats, message boards and the most comprehensive resource databases available.
Whether you are afflicted with Alzheimer's, or a caregiver, or a loved one of an Alzheimer's patient, you are sure to find answers to your questions. Our Resource Locater will help you find local support on a variety of topics.
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American Academy of Home Care Physicians
For over a decade, the American Academy of Home Care Physicians has served the needs of thousands of physicians and related professionals and agencies interested in improving care of patients in the home. For every elderly person in a nursing home, there are three more people equally fragile and infirm living at home. Home health has become the fastest-growing segment of Medicare's budget.
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American Association for Homecare
AAHomecare is the unified voice that represents all the elements of homecare under one roof. From home medical equipment to home health services and from rehab technology to respiratory/infusion therapy, AAHomecare is dedicated to working to advance the value and practice of quality health care services at home. With over 3,000 members, AAHomecare is building a community of support for the homecare industry.
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American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service. Our web site contains valuable resources including prevention and risk factors, treatment methods, detection guidelines, and patient services that help cancer patients and their families.
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American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
The purpose of ASBH is to promote the exchange of ideas and foster scholarship, research, teaching, policy development, professional development, and collegiality among people engaged in all of the endeavors related to clinical and academic bioethics and the health-related humanities.
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American Society on Aging
ASA's members comprise the largest multidisciplinary national community of professionals working with and on behalf of older people. The membership includes representatives of the public and private sectors, service providers, researchers, educators, advocates, health, allied health, social service, managed care and long-term care and mental health professionals, students and the retired, policy makers and planners. For over 40 years, the American Society on Aging has been an active and effective resource for professionals in aging and aging-related fields who want to enhance their ability to promote the well-being of aging people and their families.
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bigtreemurphy.com
A wonderful site for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients. Beverly Murphy is a rehab counselor who retired to take care of her husband when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She has organized this site with love, good experience, and good attention to detail. This site has plenty of good advice for caregivers on the difficult issues (incontinence), on how to develop a supportive living environment, and lots of good words of emotional support. A heartwarming site to visit.
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Caregiver Network
Caregiver Network, Inc. (CNI), the first of its kind in Canada, is a resource center created to help caregivers of the elderly and ill. Our goal is to make caregivers’ lives easier by providing information on the Internet and in our newsletter, education through the 13-part TV/video series “Caregiving with June Callwood”, the Canadian Aging and Caregiving Resource Guide and personal assistance and support through our seminar series, Care Management Consulting Service, the Caregiver Club and Care Across the Border.
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Caregiver.com
The web site of Today's Caregiver Magazine. This site has general information on caregiving and caregivers. There are several different features from the current magazine on topics in caregiving and an archives of past articles.
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Caregiversworld.com
A company that offers high quality products for in-home caregiving. Not your run of the mill products, here, there are some unique items that might really help your situation. Some products are of their own design and some are just useful applications for a caregiving situation. An interesting selection of products and a socially responsible company.
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Caregiving.com
Caregiving.com provides insights, information, and inspirations to persons who care for an aging relative. The site explains the six stages family caregivers travel through, guiding them to the resources and answers needed to successfully complete each stage.
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CareScout.com
CareScout.com is a good resource for information on Nursing Homes, Assisted Living facilities, and news on care giving. Here's a quote from one GCM member. "CareScout.com is my favorite site. It is a great resource for GCM's. Rather than just listing nursing home, home health and assisted living facilities in an area, CareScout has quality ratings as well. The part I like best is that care professionals and consumers can also add their comments to the ratings. In addition to knowing how oversight agencies rate care, the added perspective of "field scout" reviews allows me to be more comfortable in recommending care options to my clients."
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Council on Social Work Education
With funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation of New York City, the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) has launched Strengthening Aging and Gerontology Education for Social Work (SAGE-SW). SAGE-SW is dedicated to preparing ALL social workers to meet the needs of a growing aging population.
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ElderCare Online
Our goal is to provide information, education and support to families caring for aging loved ones, especially those coping with Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias. We believe that whether you are caring for a spouse, parent, relative or neighbor, you can learn and grow from the caregiving journey. To that end, we provide knowledge, tools and community to help caregivers improve the quality of life for both themselves and their aging loved ones.
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Ethnic Elder Care
Ethnic Elder Care presents a comprehensive presentation of information about Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias among ethnic minority elders in the United States. Ethnic Elders is dedicated to promoting research, prevention and treatment of Alzheimers disease and related disorders and to providing education, support and assistance to ethnic minority elderly patients, their families and caregivers. The site contains articles, news, links and a monthly newsletter.
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Friendly4Seniors.com
Friendly4Seniors.com searches the Internet to find useful sites for seniors and their loved ones.
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Full Circle of Care
Helping family caregivers complete the cycle of care.
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H.E.L.P.
H.E.L.P. is a community-funded, non-profit (charitable) information resource that assists older adults and their caring family and friends by providing information, planning and problem-solving services, on government program, legal healthcare-related issues that specially impact older adults.
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healthfinder®
healthfinder® is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. healthfinder® can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.
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Home Caregivers Accreditation of America
The mission of the Home Caregivers Accreditation Of America (HCAOA) is to establish an accreditation for the new and growing field of in home non-medical companion care giving for seniors and others at home who may be recovering from an illness, operation or procedure. Those accredited by HCAOA were confirmed to have followed our Standards and Guidelines on the date indicated and was confirmed to have had a business license (where required), a bond (often called a dishonesty bond), workmen's compensation for care giving employees, and business liability insurance.
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How to Care
How to Care’s goal is to provide you with practical, current information on a wide range of topics written by caregivers that offer insights and advice unavailable anywhere else.
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Last Acts
The Last Acts website is an on-line community dedicated to improving end-of-life care through the sharing of ideas and solutions by professional care givers, educators and consumers. The site includes a resource center, updates on the campaign Task Force groups, news updates, reports on palliative care, family needs, service providers, education and training.
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Medicare Rights Center
Medicare Rights Center (MRC) is the largest independent source of health care information and assistance in the United States for people with Medicare. Founded in 1989, MRC helps older adults and people with disabilities get good, affordable health care. MRC's website contains information about Medicare benefits, options and changes, examples of interesting cases we have dealt with, and resources for getting involved in our consumer advocacy work. The site also contains updated information for consumers about the upcoming changes in Medicare and how those will affect their health coverage.
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MyZiva.net
With a whole host of nursing homes throughout the United States, assessing and evaluating Nursing Facility services can easily lead to confusion and misinformation. MyZiva.net has been designed to uncomplicate the process.
MyZiva.net provides an easy to use platform for consumers, healthcare professionals and other advocates to evaluate and compare nursing homes, understand the services that a nursing home provides, and be informed of how one pays for nursing home care.
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National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc. is a non-profit association which assists lawyers, bar organizations and others who work with older clients and their families. Established in 1987, the Academy provides a resource of information, education, networking and assistance to those who must deal with the many specialized issues involved with legal services to the elderly and disabled.
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National Alliance for Caregiving
A very good resource for caregiving families and professionals. NAC is a Bethesda based association of caregiving professional organizations (including GCM) that provides information, support, and national advocacy on behalf of caregivers. They have accomplished many admirable reports, including providing an excellent guide to other web sites with information on caregiving. NAC's site is an excellent source of information for professionals looking for access to primary information on national issues on caregiving.
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National Association of Social Workers
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the largest organization of professional social workers in the world. NASW serves nearly 155,000 social workers in 55 chapters throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and abroad. NASW was formed in 1955 through a merger of seven predecessor social work organizations to carry out three responsibilities: strengthen and unify the profession; promote the development of social work practice; advance sound social policies. Promoting high standards of practice and protecting the consumer of services are major association principles.
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National Chronic Care Consortium
The National Chronic Care Consortium is a strategic alliance of individuals and organizations across industry segments and professions committed to chronic illness care reform. We engage people in practical, collaborative methods to improve care for America's largest, highest-cost, and fastest-growing customer group. We work to improve care under current market conditions and seek to change payment methods, health policies, management systems, and clinical interventions where they impede the ability of consumers to get the care they want and of plans, programs, and providers to offer effective care.
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National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform
The mission of the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform is to improve the quality of life of residents in the nation's nursing homes.
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National Family Caregivers Association
The National Family Caregivers Association offers services in the areas of information and education, support and validation, and public awareness and advocacy, toward the goal of minimizing the disparity between a caregiver's quality of life and that of mainstream Americans.
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National Guardianship Association
The mission of the National Guardianship Association is to provide educational, training, and networking opportunities for guardians; to promote the highest levels of values, standards and ethics; and to ensure a nationally recognized standard of excellence.
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National Institute of Health
This web site shares — in a fast and cost-effective way — consumer-health information about many of the diseases or health problems on which NIH conducts or supports research. You can choose from this growing full-text collection of our most requested consumer-health publications.
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National Senior Citizens Law Center
NSCLC advocates nationwide on behalf of low-income elderly individuals and persons with disabilities. It provides litigation assistance, research and consulting support, national policy representation, training and manuals and periodicals. Substantive areas covered on the site include: Age Discrimination, Americans with Disabilities Act, Medicaid, Medicare, Nursing Homes, Older Americans Act, Pension Rights and Social Security. The site includes articles and legal documents on many of these topics. The Center's publications, including numerous manuals and a newsletter, are described, but are for sale in print form only.
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Nurse Competence in Aging
Nurse Competence in Aging (NCA) is improving the quality of healthcare older adults receive by enhancing the geriatric competence -the knowledge, skills, and attitudes- of the 400,000 nurses who are professionally identified as members of approximately 57 specialty nursing associations.
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Senioralternatives.com
This site provides directories for senior housing and elder care services. Includes articles on definitions and what to look for in evaluating different senior housing types. Provides local area lists of housing alternatives.
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SeniorScape
SeniorScape offers a site where care managers, elder law attorneys, guardians and other elder care professionals, facilities and providers can meet the public in the most comprehensive of elder care resources. SeniorScape (1) delivers free and vital elder care resources to the public and (2) serves as an interactive forum for elder care professionals and service providers.
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The A2Z Senior Supersite
This free industry-wide internet portal is designed to connect you quickly and easily to the world of Senior Hospitality: providers of Senior-oriented housing, health and wellness resources, and other products and services. These communities and organizations are either Senior Hospitality Specialists (serving Seniors is their only focus) or Senior Hospitality Associates (serving Seniors is one of their specialities).
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