Natural Resources
- Administration on Aging – http://www.aoa.gov
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality – http://www.ahrq.gov
- Department of Veterans – http://www.va.gov
- National Cancer Institute – http://www.cancer.gov/
- National Center for Health Statistics – http://www.cdc.gov/nchs
- National Institute on Aging – http://www.nih.gov/nia
- National Institute of Health – http://www.nih.gov/
- National Clearinghouse for Long Term Care Information – http://www.longtermcare.gov
- Senate Special Committee on Aging – http://aging.senate.gov/
- Social Security – http://www.ssa.gov
- AARP – http://www.aarp.com
- Alliance for Aging – http://www.agingresearch.org
- Alzheimer’s Association – http://alz.org
- American Health Care Association – http://www.ahca.org/
- Families USA – http://www.familiesusa.org/
- MedicaireRx Connection – http://www.maprx.info/
- National Center on Elder Abuse – http://www.ncea.aoa.gov/
- National Council on Aging – http://www.ncoa.org/
- National Health Council – http://www.nationalhealthcouncil.org/
- National Women’s Health Network – http://www.nwhn.org/
- Society for Public Health Education – http://www.sophe.org
- Visiting Nurse Association of America – http://www.vnaa.org
- Official U.S. Government Site for People with Medicare – http://www.medicare.gov
- Friends of Residents in Long-Term Care – http://www.FORLTC.org
- America Heart Association – http://www.amhrt.org
- American Cancer Society – http://www.cancer.org
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases –http://www.niddk.nih.gov
- National Association for Home Care & Hospice – http://www.nahc.org
- Arthritis Foundation – http://www.arthritis.org
- Mesothelioma Symptoms – http://mesotheliomasymptoms.com/
- Vision Aware – http://www.visionaware.org/
Government Sites
- Medicare.gov. An all-purpose site with interactive tools for planning and paying for long-term care and choosing among drug plans. Includes searchable inspection results, good and bad, for all the nation’s skilled nursing facilities.
- http://www.nih.gov/ A collaboration of the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine that provides authoritative information on all diseases and disorders of old age. Each section is available in both large-type and audio versions.
- www.aoa.gov U.S. Administration on Aging. Brief fact sheets on aging and links to outside resources for an assortment of caregiving issues, including financial planning, residential options, in-home services, case management and the law.
- Govbenefits.gov. A tool to help determine benefit eligibility for a variety of government programs.
End of Life
- The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. An excellent search tool for finding a hospice, as well as guides on issues related to palliative care, including Medicare coverage and techniques for communicating end-of-life wishes.
- Caring Connections. Contains consumer information from NHPCO and has state-by-state advance directive forms.
Advocacy
- AARP – political position papers, member discounts, demographic research, online versions of its bulletin, and magazine and consumer advice.
- Center for Medicare Advocacy – detailed information about what Medicare covers, and how to enroll and, if necessary, appeal denial of claims.
- Medicare Rights Center – a similar tutorial on how this government health care program for the elderly works. A link to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s “Medicare 101″ and a hotline for questions and complaints.
