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AARP Webplace - Health and
Wellness Index - list of
areas on the AARP Webplace that tell you about health, wellness, and
caregiving.
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AgeNet Eldercare Network
- offers a cohesive, comprehensive,
centralized marketplace for eldercare products and services
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Because We Care: A Guide for
People Who Care - An
online resource guide for the growing number of Americans who are caring for
an older family member, adult child with disabilities, or older friend
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Caregiving Online
- Help for
persons who care for an aging relative by the publisher of Caregiving
Newsletter. Includes message boards, journal pages of family caregivers, ask
the experts and more
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Caregivers Advisory Panel
- This site's
mission is to confidentially collect, quantify and interpret facts, opinions
and needs of family caregivers
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Careguide
- CareGuide is a care management company dedicated to
helping people lead more comfortable, secure and independent lives
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Children of Aging Parents
- assist the caregivers of the elderly
with reliable information, referrals, and support
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Eldercare Locator
- A national
toll-free directory assistance, public service of the U.S. Administration on
Aging, that helps people locate aging services in every community throughout
the United States.
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Extended Care
Information Network -
offers Internet solutions and resources that connect hospitals and consumers
with extended-care providers, including nursing homes, assisted-living and
other senior-living residences, and home health care agencies.
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FamilyCare America -
highly accessible resource where caregivers can: Better learn the process of
caregiving, receive help in managing their fears and concerns and obtain
resources for help with all aspects of caregiving
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Healthy Caregiver
- presents high-quality information that
heightens awareness and enriches the overall quality of the caregiving
relationship. Addressed are diverse social, physical, economic and often times
sensitive issues that naturally emanate from the eldercare relationship
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Hospice Net
- provides
information on hospice care, terminal illness, caregiving, grief, bereavement,
death, and other issues for patients and families facing life-threatening
illness
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Informed Decision, Inc.
- for home health care, assisted living, community day
programs, and nursing homes
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Support Path
- site focuses on online communities,
online support groups, message boards, and online chats
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ThirdAge - Health - Elder
Care - this site provides
information, expert advice, resources, and emotional support for those caring
for an aging parent or another loved one
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And Thou Shalt Honor
- resource that has a database of more
than 40,000 local community service organizations, as well as links to
national organizations, Web sites and other sources of information
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Today's Caregiver Magazine -site
includes topic specific newsletters, online discussion lists, back issue
articles of Today's Caregiver Magazine, chat rooms and an online store