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Health
Care Information & Assistance,
Resource Guides, Manuals, & Electronic
Databases
Current
Awareness in Aging
Report
- This is a weekly email report published
by the Center for Demography of Health and
Aging (CDHA). You can register to receive
the report from this web page. The CDHA,
which is located at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, is sponsored by the
National Institute on Aging. The Center's
research is focused on midlife development
and aging; economics of population aging;
inequalities in health and aging; and
international comparative statistics of
population aging. Source: CDHA
Federal
Interagency Forum on Aging Related
Statistics
- This is a link to their recently
published report, "Older Americans Update
2006: Key Indicators of Well-Being." The
report is divided into five topic areas:
population, economics, health status,
health risks and behaviors, and health
care. Information is available for
ordering hard copies and downloading PDF
files.
Geriatrics
in Residency
Training
- This is a link to the 2000 Product
Catalog of geriatric educational materials
developed through the support of the John
A. Hartford Foundation of New York City.
Materials available include geriatric
curriculum manuals, packaged methods for
teaching geriatric skills, stand-alone
teaching aids, faculty development program
materials, and residential faculty
development courses. Source:
SUGERC
HRSA
Information Center
- This site provides access to
publications and newsletters, as well as
information on community health resources,
health professions training opportunities,
HIV/AIDS, HRSA state profiles and
more.
Health
Assistance
Partnership
(HAP) - This is a link to HAP's home page.
Haps work with State Health Insurance
Assistance Programs (SHIPs) to enhance
their capacity to better serve Medicare
beneficiaries. SHIPs provides information,
counseling, and assistance to Medicare
beneficiaries in all 50 states and in U.S.
territories. Source: HAP
healthfinder
® - provides links to reliable
consumer health and human services
information. From this site, you can
locate online publications,
clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and
more, that contain health related
information, including a section devoted
to seniors. healthfiderTM was
developed by the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. Source: U.S.
DHHS/healthfinder.
HealthWeb
- Check this site out. It provides links
to evaluated resources on the Web that
have been selected by librarians and
information professionals at major medical
centers. Choose from an extensive list of
health and discipline specific topics that
link you to web sites, research
information, health support groups,
clinical resources, professional
resources, recent medical information,
etc. Source: HealthWeb
Institute
of Medicine
- Part of the National Academies of
Science. IOM's mission is to address and
disseminate scientific knowledge to
improve human health. IOM provides
objective, authoritative information and
advice regarding health and science policy
to government, corporations, health
professions, and the public. Source:
IOM
MedlinePlus
- A service of the National Library of
Medicine at NIH, the consumer oriented
MedlinePlus has sections on health topics,
drug information, medical dictionaries,
directories, and links to other health and
medical organizations. Source:
MedlinePlus
Merck
Manual of
Geriatrics
- published by Merck Research
Laboratories, a division of Merck &
Co., Inc. The manual contains full-text
articles on a variety of issues related to
geriatrics and aging.
National
Center for Health
Statistics
- NCHS is part of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services. The NCHS site
focuses on showing trends in
health-related behaviors, health status,
health care utilization, and cost of care.
The site contains a vast electronic data
warehouse. Source: NCHS
National
Library of Medicine
- The NLM site serves as a "gateway" to a
variety services and resources. These
include library services, such as document
delivery and publications; databases of
biomedical references, abstracts, and full
text articles, Medline,
ClinicalTrials.gov; and research
information. Source: NLM
QEII
Geriatric Internet
Resources
- This site, produced in Canada, offers an
extensive list of Internet
links.
The
Resource Directory for Older
People
- A comprehensive alphabetical,
hyperlinked directory of resources and
professional organizations focusing on the
health and well being of older persons. It
is cooperatively produced by the National
Institute on Aging and the U.S.
Administration on Aging.
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