- Administration on Aging
- Includes information designed for older Americans, their families and people interested in services for older people.
- Alzheimer's Association
- Provides disease and support information, message boards, and links to community resources.
- Alzheimer's Disease Education & Referral Center (ADEAR)
- The ADEAR Center is a service of the National Institute on Aging. It provides information on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
- American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
- The AARP web site provides information on retirement issues, finances, health and lifestyle.
- CaregiverNJ
- Find basic information on caregiving and New Jersey-specific community resources from the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. Search by county for resources such as legal services, caregiver support services, transportation, and adult day and senior centers.
- Caring Connections
- This site, from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, provides information on many end-of-life issues. Includes information on topics such as advance care planning, financial planning, pain management, grief and hospice. The main page includes a link to find advance directives by state.
- Eldercare Locator
- A nationwide directory to assist older persons and caregivers locate local support resources for the elderly.
- Family Caregiver Alliance
- This comprehensive web site supplies information and statistics about many aspects of caregiving. Factsheets are available on many topics including long distance caregiving, relocating parents, controlling frustration, disease diagnoses, and medicare.
- Infoaging - American Federation of Aging Research
- This web site provides three main informational sections: Disease Center (includes Alzheimer's, Arthritis, Heart Diseases, Osteoporosis, etc.), the Biology of Aging (includes DNA damage, mitochondrial aging, cellular senescence, biomarkers of aging, etc.), and Healthy Aging (includes nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, etc.).
- Medicare Interactive
- Resource from the Medicare Rights Center to help people understand their Medicare rights and benefits. Use the MI Counselor to find guides, browse topics, and do a search. Also has a glossary of Medicare terms.
- MedlinePlus - Seniors' Health
- MedlinePlus, the consumer health division of the National Library of Medicine offers pages on general senior health topics and concerns, plus pages for Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Caregivers
- NOAH: Aging
- New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) provides links to high quality health information for consumers. Information on many of the concerns of aging.
- ThirdAge
- Created with today's active older individual in mind. This commercial site has links for health, beauty and financial information as well as links to discussion boards.
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