The Canny Link Directory

Advice & Consent - internet support system for adult children who are careing for their parents. Offering advice, help, and exploration of all issues involving the aging.

AgeNet - one-stop information source for older adults. Includes health, legal and insurance information specific to older adults.

Aging in Oklahoma

Aging in a Social Context - intended to assist students or others interested in the aging process find information about aging, gerentology and the political, social, and economic factors of aging.

Caregiver Assistance Network - support and information for family caregivers of older adults and disabled persons.

Caregiver Survival Resources - for caregivers, including local, regional and state sources, and a regularly-updated clearinghouse of links to caregiver resources available on the Internet.

Directions in Caregiving - semi-monthly newsletter discussing important issues for seniors and their caregivers.

Elder-Ease - features information covering insurance, legal, Medicare, Alzheimers, nursing homes, and more.

ElderCare Navigator - Weekly online advice column, nationwide directory of elder care service providers, mailing list, online newsletter and more.

ElderCare Online - community for people caring for aged loved ones including information, discussion boards and more.

ElderConnect - database containing extensive info about extended care facilities, home health care facilities and retirement communities.

ElderNet: Your Health - plenty of links on health care for seniors and specific illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, stroke, and heart disease.

Enhancing Primary Care of Frail Elders

Living With Grief - tips from various literature that may help caregivers along the journey prior to the actual loss of their love one.

Longevity Online - includes article, forums, and information on specific herbal remedies for ageing.

Mining Co.: Senior Health

Senior Clinic - syndicated weekly news column by Dr. Frank MacInnis.

Senior Sites - national list of nonprofit providers of senior housing, healthcare and services.

Social Gerontology and the Aging Revolution - exploring the impacts of the aging revolution on both self and society.

TheRubins.com - includes articles related to geriatrics and aging, featuring hints on how to select a nursing home.

Usenet - clari.news.aging - News of senior citizens and aging

Woolf Gerontology Page - includes information concerning a range of gerontology topics such as gay/lesbian aging, elder abuse, and myths of aging.

WorldHealthNet - resource dedicated to health, vitality, and longevity.    


Companies

Agepage.com - information and resource directory to support the elderly, aging, home bound, & disabled who require special home health care related equipment, supplies and information.

Aging Network Services - private agency helping older people and their families with consultation, and practical services through a nationwide network of highly skilled licensed geriatric social workers.

Allegheny Geriatric Consultants - comprehensive planning to meet the changing needs of older adults.

Bridges-Senior Care Solutions - group of Senior Care Managers experienced in providing solutions to your health care dilemmas, we develop plans that provides resourses, choices and options.

Centennial HealthCare

Elder Care Options - offers assistance at home and with housing relocation decisions. Serving Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Elder Care Referral Services - provides consulting guidance and facility referrals to seniors for retirement communities and residential care facilities for the elderly.

ElderCare Advocates, Inc. - provides planning and advice to the elderly and their families.

EnTouch Services - makers of computerized calling service that monitors the health and safety of loved ones.

Fall-Safe - fall-prevention and restraint reduction products.

Fit After 50 - exercise video tape that caters to the needs and abilities of people over 50 and the sedentary.

Florida Health Consultants - provide geriatric case managment services and help familes find healthcare facilities, fill out Medicare and Medicaid forms and more.

Gentle Transitions - specialized services for seniors who are moving.

Geriatric Consultant Resources, LLC - specializes in educational and research needs of health care professionals providing pharmacotherapy to the elderly for long-term care and managed care settings.

Homestead, The - residential aged care enabling residents to enjoy short or long stays.

Life Alert Medical protection for seniors

Mama Can't Remember Anymore - a guide for anyone caring and providing for an elderly loved one, by Nancy Wexler, MA, MFCC, director, Gerontology Associates.

Mature Mart - Shop health products that assist seniors, caregivers, elder adults, elderly, geriatric and disabled consumers achieve a quality, independent lifestyle.

National Center of Protection Services - provides consulting and products to help people choose a care provider for children, the elderly, or the disabled.

New Era Health Care - providing on-site health and support services for senior retirement communities.

Older Adults Care Management - offers home care, home health, medicare, case management and geriatric assessment services.

ParentCare - specializes in long distance coordination of necessary services for aging parents.

Pioneer Medical Systems  provides medical alarm monitoring at the highest value in order to secure a comfortable and safe living for America's seniors and persons medically at risk.

Providence Management and Development - helps manage, develop and assist organizations whose task is to serve the senior population.

RN+ Systems  Great online fall prevention and restraint reduction resource--including a free monthly newsletter, online Q&A, assessment

Senior Solutions Inc. - providing elder and senior care for discriminating clients with health, financial and legal services.

Senior Technologies, Inc. - manufactures and markets restraint-free products targeted to the healthcare industry.

Transitions, Inc. Elder Care Consulting - assesses needs, locates, and arranges facilities and services for seniors, caregivers, and families. Audits providers.

V.I.P. Care Management - managing the medical, psychological and social affairs as well as the business, legal and real estate needs of our clients.    


Government Agencies

States

Arkansas Division of Aging and Adult Services - serves as an effective and visible advocate for the aging population; is involved in long term care service and other program planning.

Florida Department of Elder Affairs

Georgia Division of Aging Services - administers a statewide system of programs which provide in-home and community services for seniors.

Illinois Department on Aging

Kansas Department on Aging

Vermont Department of Aging and Disabilities

Office of the Minister Responsible for Seniors, Ontario

Conference for Older Australians - Australia

International Federation on Ageing - a consultative NGO to major UN agencies.    


Institutes

Centre for Activity and Ageing - combines research investigation of physical activity and ageing into strategies to maintain the ageing population in independent lifestyles.

Aging Research Centre (ARC) - dedicated to providing a service that allows researchers in this field to find information that is related to the study of the aging process.

Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College - multidisciplinary gerontology center.

Claude Pepper Older American's Independence Center - at University of Connecticut Health Center is devoted to enhancing independence in older persons through research and education.

Duke Center for Demographic Studies - demography research center that focuses on the aging population and medical economics.

Gerontology Institute - Oklahoma State University - offers courses in gerontology, a graduate certificate, and a multidisciplinary master of science degree.

Indiana University Center for Aging Research - seeking to improve the quality of life for older adults through interdisciplinary research.

Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group - longevity, anti-aging medicine, life extension.

National Ageing Research Institute

New England Centenarian Study - studies centenarians, who are believed to carry the secrets to successful aging.

Northern Illinois University - offers undergraduate and graduate programs.

Pennsylvania State University Gerontology Center - providing useful resources for the elderly and fostering applied research related to aging.

Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy - multidiciplinary and comparative research on public issues related to population aging, health care, and economic security; graduate and undergraduate certificate programs in gerontology.

Stein Gerontological Institute - dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing independence for the aging and disabled.

Temple University - Institute on Aging

University of Georgia - Gerontology Center - multidisciplinary resource on aging. Training (including a Graduate Certificate), research, and educational info about aging and the elderly.

University of Utah Gerontology Center - Overview of graduate and certificate programs. Description of only graduate level program.

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - includes information on consulting services, publications on aging and environmental issues, resources on environments for people with dementia, and links to related sites.

WHO: Ageing and Health Programme - includes a history of current World Health Organization's work on health of elderly people.

Wayne State University - Institute of Gerontology

Webster University    


Long Term Care

Debbie's Adult Home Pages - guide to long-term care solutions.

Long Term Care Page

Nursing Home and Long Term Care Topics

Self Care Advisory - aims to help individuals make their own decisions regarding diagnosis and treatment of health problems. Provides advice and information on self treatment and over-the-counter products.

USAhomecare.com - information on home health and hospice including faqs, ethics, good news, commentary, referrals and more for the general public, media, and government to learn and locate an ethical provider.    


Magazines

Healthy Caregiver - an elder care resource magazine for family and professional caregivers.

Caregiving Newsletter - wellness for caregivers of an aging relative, friend or neighbor - caring for an aging relative is hard.

Eymann Publications, Inc. - specializing in newsletters related to long-term care and issues of aging.

Longevity 101 - featuring information on nutrition, strokes, heart attacks and enhancing immunity.    


Organizations

APTA Section on Geriatrics - component of the American Physical Therapy Association committed to providing care for the geriatric client.

Age Concern - the National Council on Ageing aims to promote the well-being of all older people, and involve them in all aspects of society.

Age Concern England - dedicated to improving the life of the elderly in the United Kingdom.

American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry - AAGP is dedicated to promoting the mental health and well being of older people and improving the care of those with late-life mental disorders.

American Federation for Aging Research - funds junior investigators and medical and Ph.D students to do biomedical research on aging and age-related conditions.

American Health Assistance Foundation - funding research on age-related and degenerative diseases, educating the public about these diseases, and providing emergency financial assistance.

American Society on Aging - professional membership association in the field of aging.

British Geriatrics Society

California Accreditation Of Residential Elder Services, Inc - nonprofit, non-aligned public service agency committed to strengthening the quality of eldercare services, education and information about aging.

California Association of Health Facilities - list of licensed long term care facilities in California; all nursing homes are listed by county and city.

California Association of Homes and Services for the Aging - a non-profit organization of health care homes and services for the aging.

Care Providers of Minnesota - membership organization of long-term care and senior housing settings.

Central West Virginia Aging Services, Inc. - social service agency filling needs of the elderly and disabled through Medicaid Waiver, in-home private pay homemakers, advocacy, information/referral, prescription and employment assistance.

Consumer Ombudsman Program - information on elderly health issues, and nursing homes.

Continuing Care Accreditation Community - independent accrediting body sponsored by the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.

Council For Jewish Elderly - provides a full range of social and health care services for seniors, including adult day care, housing, care/case management, counseling, seniornet, transportation, and advocacy.

Florida Association of Homes for the Aging - organization of retirement housing and long-term care communities.

Foundation for Infinite Survival, Inc. - comprehensive approach to long-range health; cancer research reports, philosophy, infinite survival.

Generations United - national coalition of intergenerational groups.

Georgia Nursing Home Association - representing the best interests of residents as well as owners, administrators, and other personnel.

Gerontological Society of America - multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the scientific study of aging and to the translation/dissemination of research for practice and policy.

Kansas Association of Homes and Services for the Aging - representing not-for-profit community, church and government sponsored adult care homes, retirement communities, and social service programs for the elderly.

Long Term Care Ombudsman of Ventura County - protecting the quality of life of the frail elderly and providing support and services for thier families.

Maryland Association of Non-profit Homes for the Aging (MANPHA) - organization of facilities and programs that deliver housing, healthcare, community and related services to the aging.

Massachusetts Aging Services Association - not-for-profit association representing not-for-profit community, church and government sponsored adult care homes, retirement communities, and social service programs for the aging.

National Council on the Aging, The - NCOA - private, nonprofit association committed to promoting the dignity, self-determination, well-being, and contributions of older persons and to enhancing the field of aging through leadership and service, education, and advocacy.

New York State Health Facilities Association - association of nursing facilities specializing in traditional residential nursing home services, sub-acute on short term care, or those in need of rehabilitative services.

Pennsylvania Association of Non-Profit Homes for the Aging - promoting the interests of nonprofit organizations that serve those in need of long-term care services.

Philadelphia Geriatric Center - Jewish-sponsored private, nonprofit organization. Provider of aging services in the Philadelphia region.

Rejuvenation and Longevity Foundation - includes information and newsletters aging, healthy living, and longevity.

Senior Health Foundation CyberCentral - privately funded, non-profit organization that specializes in providing progressive senior computer education, fitness, research, advocacy and more.

Texas Health Care Association - information, education, and services related to long term care.

Trinity Foundation International - dedicated to solutions for diseases of aging.

United Seniors Health Cooperative - organization committed to health and independence for seniors, persons with disabilities, children and families.

Virginia Health Care Association - a membership organization of licensed nursing and assisted living facilities.