Links You Can Use
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State and Local Level Links:
- Pennsylvania Department of Aging
- LIHEAP assistance or call 1-866-857-7095
- Community Choice Program
Sponsored by PA Dept of Aging, Public Welfare; assistance getting services in home if income-qualified; 1-888-482-9060 - PA State Nurses Association
Clinical Corner and Study Releases - CARIE Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly
CARIE LINE 1-800-356-3606 - Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA)
PCA Helpline 215-765-9040; TDD 215-765-9041 - Project SAFE (SeniorLaw Center)
- Aid for Friends
Home delivered meals; group meal programs; 1-800-FOOD-997 - Alzheimer's Association Delaware Valley Chapter
- PENN Home Care and Hospice Services
National Level Links:
- The National Council on Aging (Center for Healthy Aging)
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Nursing Research
- ADEAR - Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center
- U.S. Administration on Aging (AOA) - Dept of Health and Human Services
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- Alliance for Aging Research
- Alzheimer's Spouse Support Website
- American College of Physicians
- American Federation for Aging Research
- American Geriatrics Society
- Educational Resources for Clinicians, Consumers and Healthcare Providers
- Geriatrics At Your Fingertips (2005, 7th Edition)
- American Society on Aging
- Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Healthy Aging for Older Adults)
- Gerontological Society of America
- The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Research Centers
Caregiver and Caregiving:
- Family Caregiver Alliance, National Center on Caregiving
- Resources for Caregivers and Professionals as listed in the Spring 2006 Family Caregiver Alliance Update newsletter:
- Changes in U.S. Aging and Caregiving Statistics - The U. S. Census Bureau published this report on older adults and caregiving activities. The report discusses the impact of Alzheimer's disease and more.
- Guide for Families and Friends of People with Medicare - Medicare Basics offers information and suggestions for finding more resources and information on a variety of topics for families and friends of people with Medicare.
- New Resource for Long-Distance Family Caregivers - A new publication from the National Institute on Aging provides long-distance caregivers with ideas and resources for making caregiving more manageable.
- New Online Resource for Family Caregivers - A new caregiver website launched by Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with the U.S. Surgeon General and other aging and caregiving organizations, to support family caregivers.
- Making Transition from Hospital to Home - The Care Transitions Program, a part of the University of Colorado at Denver Health Science Center, has created two tools to support patients and their families as they make the transition from hospital to home: a patient-centered record system that contains essential information for organizing a patient's care and a structured discharge preparation checklist of critical activities and information to empower patients and their caregivers.
- New Tutorial on Financing Long-Term Care - The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured offers an informative tutorial on financing long-term care.
- Bathing Individuals with Dementia - The Bathing Without a Battle CD and video training package issued by the Commonwealth Fund.
- National Direct Service Workforce Resource Center - The Resource Center was created to respond to the growing shortage of workers who provide direct care and personal assistance to people with disabilities and older adults in the community.
- When Employees Become Caregivers - A Manager's Workbook - This guide helps employers with how to make needed eldercare and Medicare information available to caregiving employees at little or no cost. It includes challenges to America's business, meeting employee eldercare needs, seminars on aging and eldercare, and training for supervisors.
- Stroke Recovery Scorecard - Created by the National Stroke Association to help guide stroke survivors and their caregivers on important issues they may face during rehabilitation.
- Planning for Hope - Living with Frontotemporal Dementia, a documentary
- e-Book: Planning for Hope Know the early signs of FTD -Frontotemporal...slideshare.net
- Resources for Caregivers and Professionals as listed in the Spring 2006 Family Caregiver Alliance Update newsletter:
Online Resources for Additional Information:
- NIHSeniorHealth
- PubMed (Medical articles, papers, abstracts)
- MedLine Plus (from the National Library of Medicine)
- Alzheimer's Disease page
- Dementia page
- International Health page
- MedPage Today (news in medicine, research, and prevention)
The Healthy Brain Initiative, prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Alzheimer's Association; click on the title above or the image at right
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