Web Sites for the Elderly and their Caregivers


Cooperating Agencies

The following agencies have cooperative arrangements with Active Seniors Options. We have reviewed each company and web site in this list, and are confident of the authorative and helpful nature of the content. If you are interested in establishing a cooperative link arrangement, please email us.

Organization / DescriptionURL
Age Wise Care Management www.agewisecm.com
Age Wise Care Management provides individuals and their families an integrated team of professionals to help ensure access to quality long-term care choices.
East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging www.academyhealth.org
ECIAAA's mission is to help older adults live with dignity, independence, and safety as long as possible. ECIAAA plans, coordinates and advocates for the development of a full array of services on behalf of over 137,000 older persons living in the sixteen counties of East Central Illinois.
Right at Home in-home care and assistance www.rightathomeilliana.com
Right At Home provides trained, insured and bonded caregivers for a variety of caregiving needs. Their services are highly personalized and flexible allowing them to provide the services clients need most, when they need them anytime 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Senior At Home Services www.seniorathomeservices.com/
Senior At Home Services brings resources to seniors that are personally tailored so that they can continue to enjoy life in the comfort and safety of their own home.

Web Sites of Special Note

These web sites are not necessarily cooperating agencies but have something special to offer those interested in successful aging..

DescriptionURL
Book: Listen to the Wisest of All www.listentothewisest.com
Authors Rita Blockman and Kimberly Morin During interviewed and tape-recorded the life stories of individuals between the ages of 88 and 104 over a two-and-a-half year period. The interviewees honestly and eagerly have shared unique insights on a myriad of subjects, offering priceless wisdom that could affect generations to come. The interviewees shared inspiring quotes, their strong spiritual beliefs, their advice to the younger generation of today, and how they all were deeply touched by friendship, poetry, music, or nature.

Links We Are Aware Of

We have not reviewed all of the following sites at length, so there is no implied endorsement, but many of them offer extremely useful information. If you find a broken link or have an additional site to suggest, please email us.


OrganizationURL
Academy Health www.academyhealth.org
Active Seniors Options www.activeseniorsoptions.com
Agency for Health Research and Quality www.hcpr.gov
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) www.ahrq.gov
Agenet - Solutions for Better Aging www.AgeNet.com
Aging Network Services www.agingnets.com
Aging Parents and Elder Care http://www.aging-parents-and-elder-care.com/
AGS Foundation for Health in Aging (FHA) http://www.healthinaging.org/
Alliance for Aging Research http://www.agingresearch.org/
Alzheimer's Association www.alz.org
American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging www.aasha.org
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) www.aarp.org
American Health Care Association www.ahca.org
American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/4642.html
American Occupational Therapy Program www.aota.org
American Physical Therapy Association www.apta.org
American Society on Aging www.asasing.org
American Society on Aging www.asaging.org
Area Agency on Aging www.n4A.org
Benefits CheckUp www.benefitscheckup.org
Best Caregiver Info www.bestcaregiverinfo.com
Caregiving.com http://caregiving.com
Children of Aging Parents www.caps4caregivers.org
Current Biomedical Research in Aging http://www.afar.org/
DHHS Administration on Aging www.aoa.gov
Economic Policy Institute http://www.epinet.org/
Elder Care Online http://www.ec-online.net/
ElderCare Online http://ALZwell.com
ElderWeb http://www.elderweb.com/
Families USA http://www.familiesusa.org
Family Caregiver Alliance www.caregiver.org
Focus on the Family www.troubledwith.org
Foundation fro Gerontology Healthandage.com
Gerontological Society of America http://www.geron.org/
Illinois Department on Aging http://www.state.il.us/aging/
Institute for Successful Aging www.fullpotential.com
Kaiser Family Foundation http://www.kff.org/
Mature Markets, Inc. www.maturemarketsinc.com
Meals on Wheels Foundation www.mealsonwheels.org
Medicare Rights Center http://www.medicarerights.org/
Medicare's Nursing Home Compare Site http://www.medicare.gov/nhcompare/home.asp
MedLine Plus Database http://medlineplus.gov/
Midwestern GEC http://midgec.midwestern.edu/
National Academy on an Aging Society http://www.agingsociety.org/
National Academy on Social Insurance Media Sourcebook http://www.nasi.org/info-url_nocat2744/info-url_nocat.htm
National Adult Day Services Association www.nadsa.org
National Alliance for Caregiving www.nami.org
National Association for Home Care www.nahc.org
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging http://www.n4a.org/default.cfm
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging http://www.n4a.org/
National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers www.caremanager.org
National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform http://www.nccnhr.org/
National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare http://www.ncpssm.org/
National Council on the Aging www.ncoa.org
National Eldercare Referral Systems wwwnursinghomereports.com
National Family Caregivers Association www.nfcacares.org
National Health Information Center"Healthfinder", DHHS www.healthfinder.gov
National Institute on Aging Information Center www.nih.gov/nia/
National Mental Health Association www.nmha.org
National Senior Citizens Law Center www.nsclc.org
New Lifestyles www.newlifestyles.com
NIA: Alzheimers.org alzheimers.org
SAGE Crossroads Project http://www.sagecrossroads.net/
Senior Alternatives www.senioralternatives.com
Senior Corps Hotline www.seniorcorps.org
Senior Options www.senioroptions.com
Senior Sites www.seniorsites.com
Senior.com http://senior.com
State Health Facts http://www.statehealthfacts.org/
The Urban Institute http://www.urban.org/
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Eldercare Locator http://eldercare.gov
U.W. ElderCare Referral Agency www.eldercareinfo.com
Visiting Nurse Association of America www.vnaa.org
Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement http://www.wiser.heinz.org/

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