Resources

Resources

Below is a list of elder care related websites.

  • Happy Elder Care: A elder care site where users can search for elder care services. They also provide a mobile app for caregiver searching.
  • A Place For Mom, Inc: Referral service for those choosing assisted living, nursing homes, and retirement communities.
  • Adult Day Care Consultants: This site presents, how to manuals, and consulting on adult day care and assisted living facilities and operations.
  • Affordable Home Care Agency: Information on the staff of professional caregivers provided in Northern California at an affordable cost.
  • Aid For Seniors: Offers managed care and supportive services for the elderly of Los Angeles and Orange counties of California. Includes description of services and articles.
  • AlertOne Services, Inc.: Provides assisted living facilities with wireless emergency response systems.
  • Alternative Solutions in Long Term Care: Offers information and resources regarding recreation therapy and social work in the long term care industry.
  • American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging: A national nonprofit organization representing 5,000 not-for-profit nursing homes, retirement communities, assisted living residences and senior housing facilities for the elderly.
  • HealthHelpZone.com: A website that provides resources related to health and wellness.
  • 101dentist.com: A website that provides resources related to dental health.
  • Law and Attorney Guide: 101Attorney.com provides legal guide and attorney and law firm listings in the United States.
  • 1clickmoney.com: A website featuring money and finance related resources.
  • Nocomo.com: A website that provides resources related to personal finance.
  • Lazzia.com: A website that provides financial resources.
  • AttorneyHelp.org: A website featuring law and attorney related resources.
  • LawResolution.com: A website dedicated to help people solve legal problems.
  • ProLawGuide.com: Features online legal resources such as attorney listings and legal guides.
  • LawyerForYou.org: A legal website featuring law and attorney related resources.
  • Apartments: helpful articles and resources on apartment rental and apartment living.
  • Real Estate Articles: helpful articles and resources on real estates.
  • HappyTravelers.org: You can find travel guide on this website to help you make better travel decisions.
  • Barton Home Care: This Denver, Colorado companion care company offers affordable assistance to the elderly, resources for seniors living at home, and care for the chronically disabled, easing the burden on family caregivers.
  • Best Caregiver Info: On-line information resource for all issues related to caregiving including local resources, employee background screening programs for families.
  • BUPA Care Homes: Sheltered housing and assisted living development with management of over 245 homes around the UK.
  • Caregiver Survival Resources: Helping caregivers cope with the demands of caregiving, whether it's caring for an aging parent, a disabled loved one, or a patient coping with a difficult disease.
  • Caregiver.com: Features the online version of Today's Caregiver magazine, including some current articles and archives. Also contains informational resources, discussion groups, and a newsletter.
  • Caregiving Online: Offers access to support, information, and resources for caring for and aged relative.
  • CarePathways.com: Reviews, ratings and rankings of sites dealing with senior care and housing options. Extensive educational resources to assist decision makers. Helping you find solutions for elder care.
  • CareScout: Quality-of-care ratings and discounts on nursing homes, assisted living facilities and home health agencies, plus information on long-term care insurance.
  • Caring for the Terminally Ill, HYG-5315-98: Ohio State University Extension fact sheet. Includes psychological, physical, and spiritual care briefs.
  • Caring Workplace: Provides employers with a way to assist their employees care for senior relatives.
  • Comfort Keepers: Provides individual in-home non-medical senior care, companionship and recreation.
  • Compassionate Companions Inc.: Elderly care services in Central and South Florida. Includes a list of services and contact information.
  • Culture Change Now: Challenges nursing homes to rethink the impersonal medical model of caring for our elders and adopt a social model, creating vibrant, elder-friendly communities to live in.
  • Direct Care Alliance: A coalition of long-term care consumers, providers, and workers, who seek to improve the quality of long-term care through a focus on improving the quality of jobs for frontline caregivers.
  • Directory of Assisted Living Facilities: Senior housing list, by state, compiled by ElderNet.
  • Elder Care Advisors: Elder care services, advice, training and publication for care givers and children of elderly parents
  • Elder Care Referral Services: Provides advice to families who need help locating quality retirement or care facilities for elderly relatives in Sacramento.
  • Elder Service Inc.: Geriatric care consultants in the southeastern Pennsylvania area.
  • Eldercare Consultants of Memphis: Helping services for the elderly or homebound family member who needs special care.
  • Eldercare Consultants, PLLP: Provides nursing services, planning, referral, and service procurement for the geriatric community. Includes a list of services and contact information. Minnesota, USA.
  • Eldercare Locator: Local information, referral resources, and contact information for state and local agencies, from the United States' Health and Human Services Department.
  • ElderCare Online: Offers information, resources, education and support on Alzheimer's care, home care, independent living, insurance coverage, legal and financial matters, and wellness.
  • Empowering Caregivers: Resources, chat room, messagesboards and newsletter devoted to carers of the elderly.
  • Faith in Action: Information from a national organization which offers grants to local groups of volunteers representing many faiths, who work together to care for their neighbors who are chronically ill, frail, elderly or disabled.
  • Family Caregiver Alliance: A clearinghouse on brain disorders, caregiver assistance and long-term care public policy.
  • Full Circle of Care: A comprehensive resource for caregivers of older adults to help them make informed decisions and access personalized assistance and respite.
  • Gardens Professional Care Management, Inc.: Serving Palm Beach and Martin County Florida. Dedicated to senior health - a link to families out of the area. Specializing in dementia care and crisis intervention.
  • GeriQuest - Quality of Life Issues for Seniors: Serves as a health education and information resource for the elderly, their caretakers and significant others.
  • GetCare Long-Term Care Assessment: Listing long-term and elder care options. Searchable database for services by area.
  • Healing Arts Communications: Presents the "Home Care Companion" video series. Instruction for the individual who cares for a loved one at home.
  • Help4Caregivers.org: Provides information, resources and referral to people caring for loved ones who are aging or who have a debilitating/terminal disease.
  • HelpingCaregivers.com: Offers online resources for family caregivers. Also offers support for caregivers in the South Plains region of Texas, USA.
  • Home Instead Senior Care: Provides non-medical care, assistance and companionship to the elderly.
  • I Care For You: Personal experience of informal caregiving of parents. Includes experiences with Alzheimer's and stroke. Included are several links about the health and needs of the elderly and their caregivers.
  • Illinois Association of Community Care Program Home Care Providers: Care services association for elderly home care providers.
  • Informed Decisions, Inc. - Caregiving and Elder Care Issues: Eldercare resources for family caregivers. Information about long term care, home health care, Assisted living, and nursing homes.
  • International Council on Active Aging: Information, education, resources to promote wellness in aging.
  • Interventions Inc.: Elder care management services in New York City and Westchester County, New York as well as Connecticut.
  • Life Alert: Emergency response and alert button.
  • Life Care Services: A leading developer and manager of continuing care, assisted living retirement communities throughout the United States.
  • Long Term Care Link: Provides a wide variety of information and referrals to assist, educate and support those responsible for arranging long-term care.
  • Long Term Care Provider.com: Information for caregivers and professionals in the post-acute and long-term care industry on assisted living, DME, DMERC, nursing, medical equipment, rehabilitation facilities, hospice and dementia care
  • Marwood Rest Home: An 87 bed long term care facility located in a residential setting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Midwest Geriatric Care Managers Association: The National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers Midwest chapter. Includes articles, testimonials, and a "find a care manager" feature.
  • Momiji Health Care Society: Assisting Canadians, primarily senior citizens of Japanese-Canadian descent, to live independently in their own homes as long as possible by arranging for services when needed.
  • National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA): Caregiving advocacy organization with tips and statistics on caregiving in America.
  • National Organization For Empowering Caregivers (NOFEC): Charitable organization providing caregivers with assistance, education, support, and referrals. Includes resources, an event list, and membership information.
  • Neighborly Senior Services: A nonprofit organization providing meals and other life-sustaining services to the frail, homebound, seniors and their families for 35 years in Pinellas County, Florida.
  • NHS Care: Provides medical long term care help for seniors including estate planning, asset protection and elder law information.
  • Nursing Home Information: Information provided to answer nursing home questions, including Medicare, Medicaid, patient rights, abuse, survey results, regulations, and complaint handling.
  • Red Light/Green Light- Keys to Successful Assisted Living: An informative article that discusses the key developmental,marketing, financial and operational aspects of a successful assisted living facility.
  • Resources For Aging, Inc.: Publisher of "The Caregiver Sourcebook", a reliable, jargon-free guide that educates the caregiver on issues of caregiving, elder care, elder law, Medicare, Medicaid, and other senior issues.
  • Salt Lake County Aging Services: Provides programs and services for the residents of Salt Lake County, Utah who are age 60 and over and their caregivers.
  • Senior Care Dallas: In home care services to senior citizens living in the Dallas, Texas, USA area.
  • Senior Care Solutions: Senior and elder care consultants, certified geriatric care managers.
  • Senior Housing Net: Find housing for yourself or someone you love. View photos, maps, floor plans and virtual tours of assisted living facilities, retirement communities, and nursing homes.
  • Senior Housing Networking Community: A free online senior housing/assisted living community for developers, owner/operators and others involved in development, marketing, management and finance.
  • Senior Solutions, Inc.: Consultants providing seniors with health, financial and legal services, including helping them remain in their own homes. Located in Livermore, California, USA.
  • SeniorCare Network: Provides geriatric care services, focusing on home care. Available in parts of California and Pennsylvania, USA.
  • Seniors Action Service: Home aid service and eldercare education in the Chicago, Illinois, USA area. Contains descriptions of the service, a class schedule, and a company profile.
  • Sentry Telecare: Offers an automated telephone check-in service. Describes the service and includes price information.
  • St. Andrew's Resources for Seniors (STARS): A faith-based, not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving seniors in the St. Louis, Missouri area by helping with senior housing and community services.
  • StopPain.org: Provides information for family caregivers and professionals on subjects such as pain management, navigating the healthcare system, and self-care. From Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, USA.
  • Support Aged Care: Peer support for those who use Aged Care services and information from Australian based facilities.
  • The Caregiver's Handbook: An online guide assisting both the caregiver and the elderly care receiver.
  • The Eden Alternative, Region 16: A "philosophy of care" for seniors. A tool for improving quality of life for the elderly to eliminate boredome and loneliness.
  • The ElderCare Resource Center: Alzheimer's disease education, information, training, and referrals as well as specially selected products designed to improve the quality of life for patients and their caregiver(s).
  • The Healthy Caregiver Magazine: An elder care resource magazine for family and professional caregivers.
  • The Information Center, Inc.: Provides information and assistance in accessing public resources and community services. Includes a discussion board, a list of services, and success stories.
  • Transitions Elder Care Consulting: On-line guide to elder caregiving, opinion column written by an older adult, caregiver's support forum, assessment tools, tips about working with older adults.
  • Virtual Retirement Index: Information on retirement communities in the US and Canada.
  • Warning about use of psychotropic drugs: This is a warning about the use of psychotropic drugs in nursing homes and the importance of Power of Attorney. Also includes Chicago Tribune story concerning this topic.
  • With a Little Help: Provides home services for seniors, aging parents, and people with special needs, including respite care, companionship, housework help, and transportation. Washington state, USA.
  • Woodlands: Central Maine's retirement community offering independent and assisted living options.