Helpful Links
The links on this page are provided to help caretakers find additional information on various other commercial and private organizations’ web sites. These links are maintained solely for the user's information and convenience. When you link to another site, please be aware that you are then subject to the policies of the new site. In addition, please note that Children of Aging Parents does not control and cannot guarantee the content, relevance, timeliness or accuracy of outside information. Further, the inclusion of links to particular items is not intended to reflect their importance, nor is it intended to constitute approval or endorsement of any views expressed or implied, or products or services offered.
For more information, please contact: Chuck Thompson at cthompson@caps4caregivers.org.
AbleProject.org: This non-profit group was formed to provide a network where people with disabilities and their loved ones can effortlessly research, compare, locate and obtain mobility and assistive products, thereby helping them to lead more independent lives.
Acadian On Call: Provides medical alert systems to over 12,000 subscribers in TX, LA, and MS. Our service, launched in 1991, provides peace of mind to subscribers and their families knowing that if needed, emergency assistance is available at the push of a button. Acadian On Call ranks in the top 10 medical alarm companies in the U.S.
Advanced Senior Solutions: Geriatric care management specialists guiding seniors and their loved ones in the right direction.
AgeWiseLiving: Working by phone, provides adult children with information, options, resources, and solutions to make informed decisions and coaching to enable families to implement their decisions by choice rather than crisis.
Aging Parents and Elder Care: A comprehensive resource for family caregivers during all stages of care.
Aging with Grace, LLC: This is a geriatric care management company that offers FREE eldercare referral placement. We offer one-stop shopping for elder care needs to include: on-site geriatric assessments, assisted living, in-home care, respite, adult day care, elder law attorneys, VA Aid & Attendance benefits & Medicare & Medicaid information.
Alternatives For Seniors: This free service allows people to browse and order brochures for a variety of senior housing and other services. They can also order a free hard-copy directory online.
Alzwell: provides dementia caregivers with understanding, knowledge, and wisdom throughout the caregiving journey
A Place for Mom: A free referral service for families in search of senior care options. An eldercare adviser discusses the elderly loved ones’ specific situation and provides resources and housing options tailored to their needs.
Arthritis Daily: Supports education and research into arthritis and bone diseases.
At Home Care Assisted Living Services: This is a Philadelphia area based home health care and household assistance agency.
Benefitscheckup.org: BenefitsCheckUp helps thousands every day to find programs for people ages 55 and over that may pay for some of their costs of prescription drugs, health care, utilities, and other essential items or services.
Books Aloud: Provides free audio book library services (via U.S. mail) for people of all ages who are unable to read printed books on their own, due to a physical, visual, or a learning disability.
BRACE: the Bone Reconstruction Association for Care and Education, is a nonprofit charitable organization formed to provide financial assistance for the surgical correction of bone and joint deformities.
Cardinal Ritter Senior Services: Cardinal Ritter Senior Services (CRSS) provides services to improve the quality of life for senior adults by promoting and providing social, health, and housing programs and services in St. Louis City (MO) and County, as well as in St. Charles, Jefferson, Franklin and Warren Counties.
Care.com: This Senior Care Directory is free, and provides a comprehensive listing of resources in seven categories: housing resources, transportation resources, home care, end-of-life care, legal resources, financial planning and management, and health care. Visitors will also be able to access articles that include how-to guides, and even a blog on senior care issues.
Caregiver Mall: Free caregiver support for elder care and long term senior care.
CareGiver Partnership: The CareGiver Partnership is a direct to consumer provider of approximately 1,800 of the most commonly used products for home healthcare including incontinence, nutritional, diabetic, wound care, daily living, personal care and arthritis.
Caregiving.com: is maintained by Denise Brown who operates The Center for Family Caregivers and owns and operates Tad Publishing Co., both based in Park Ridge, Ill. Through her organizations, Denise helps persons who care for an aging relative.
Carepathways.com: CarePathways.com: Created and maintained by RNs dedicated to providing seniors and their families access to quality information and creditable services. On-line access to extensive care facilities database and personal care, mobility, safety, and comfort products.
Caring Caregivers Guide: A resource for the family caregiver, professional caregiver and medical field personnel.
Caring.com: A web site for Boomers caring for their elderly, ill parents with soup-to-nuts information; not just medical, but also finances, nutrition, and legal.
CaringToday.com: Practical advice for the family caregiver.
Crossroads Hospice: The focus is on creating an environment for the patient and family to share with each other the highest quality of life remaining.
The Center to Advance Hospice Care: CAHC is a non-profit education and outreach organization serving Philadelphia, Montgomery, Chester, Delaware and Bucks Counties in Pennsylvania. It promotes hospice awareness and offers free hospice education programs, workshops and seminars.
Clothing Solutions - Daily Dressing Made Easy: For seniors and others who enjoy dressing with the help of their favorite family or facility caregivers. You can also email a catalog request to Info@ClothingSolutions.com.
Comfort Keepers: Providing assisted living services in the home at a lower cost. Being around familiar surroundings and personal items provides a level of comfort to the senior and allows the senior to retain independence without having to conform to a new schedule.
Complete Eldercare Planner: Attempts to cover all elder care issues, all the emergencies, all the possible scenarios and all the questions a caregiver needs to have answered.
Coping With Caregiving: Jacqueline Marcell is an author, publisher, radio host, national speaker, and advocate for eldercare awareness and reform. She hosts an Internet radio program "Coping with Caregiving" heard worldwide.
CWI Medical: Full line medical supply company specializing in medical nutrition, incontinence and ambulatory products. Informative articles and safe, secure online shopping.
Disposables Delivered: Disposables Delivered LLC was established with the purpose of providing professional guidance, superior products and discrete home delivery to those who must deal with incontinence on a personal level or in helping another.
The Dollar Stretcher: Looking to save time or money? Visit The Dollar Stretcher for thousands of helpful articles to stretch your day and your dollar.
The Eagle Card: The Eagle Card system was developed specifically to work closely with U.S. emergency services to supply vital personal data to the police, paramedics or emergency room personnel in the event of the Card holder being involved in an accident or a life threatening incident.
Easy Living Lifeline Program: Offers Easy Living Lifeline Personal Emergency Response Systems plus access to home, health and personal services, allowing older adults the ability to enjoy their retirement years in the comfort and familiar surroundings of their own home.
ElderCare Online: provides comprehensive information, education and support for people caring for aging loved ones.
Enhanced Care Solutions: provides interactive, non-invasive home health security systems that incorporate medical alert and emergency response to provide a full circle of safety for the senior and peace of mind for caregivers.
4EverActiveRX: A healthcare marketplace and resource for caregivers and people who desire independent living: aids to daily living and exclusive benefits such as a free 4EverActiveRx savings card. Also includes a toll free, 24-hour nurse line for health information.
Get Palliative Care: Valuable information for patients and families coping with serious, complex illness including a palliative care Provider Directory, a definition and detailed description of what palliative care is, direct links to palliative care-related organizations and more.
Griswold Special Care: A non-medical home care company that refers caregivers who provide in-home care services, including personal care, homemaking, companionship, and other home care and supportive services.
Guide to Retirement Living: The Guide to Retirement Living in print and on the Internet is the only complete database of all senior housing, assisted living, nursing homes, home health care services, and professional resources in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Washington DC, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
HealthInfoBase.com: Health Info Base can help you find health information online. In its Aging section, it points out that aging is an inevitable fact of life. How you age is up to you.
Healthline: Often associated with aging is the increased likelihood of major life transitions. Find information about high blood pressure, osteoarthritis, prostate cancer and menopause Also search articles on current health news.
HITEC Special Needs Center: Founded in 1982, it has helped hundreds of thousands of individuals reunite with the people around them by providing innovative product solutions for hearing and vision loss. These include amplified phones, signaling devices, large button phones, TV and assistive listening devices, TTYs etc
Health Insurance: Free health insurance quotes from ExtendOne - Affordable individual health insurance.
HomeHealthWares: Delivers name brand medical supplies directly to the consumer at discount prices. Order online today and have your supplies delivered to your home within two business days.
Home Instead: Home Instead CareGivers help older adults with their activities of daily living that allow them to live independently no matter where they call home. From a a few hours-a-day, up to 24 hours, 7 days-a-week, including week-ends and holidays.
Information Portfolio: Provides affordable personal health records management products that will enable the individual to easily store, track and retrieve their personal health information.
Inventive Play: Discover games, puzzles, books, and more to stimulate your brain, make you smile, and bring you, your family, and those you care for closer together. We’re about keeping your mind active, and helping caregivers and those you care for, especially individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
KCKMedical.com: Provides superior supplies at fair prices for private individuals as well as home health caregivers, doctors, and nurses.
Lifeline: Provides medical alarms and personal emergency alert systems
for the elderly, senior caregivers, and the disabled.Long-Term Care Insurance: information, articles, and consumer guides to help plan for your future care. Family caregiver resources, nursing home locations and long-term care information.
LookHealthFit.com: Health directory and health resource on the web.
Mangar International: Designs and manufactures products to assist people in their everyday lives, to enable them to stay in their own homes as long as possible.
Maturity Health Matters: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) online newsletter, published three times a year, provides readers with information about FDA-regulated products and other health information for older adults, their families and caregivers.
MealCall.org: Find local Meals-On-Wheels and other meal delivery and congregate meal services for senior citizens.
Medical Alert System: Providing medical alert systems to seniors and handicapped individuals with an aim to promote independent living.
Medical Alert Systems: For Medical Alerts, Medical Alarms, Lifelines, and Senior home care for your peace of mind. Care for the elderly in your life while letting them keep a sense of independence.
Medicare Interactive: Now consumers, caregivers and health care professionals across the country can access the timeliest Medicare information and resources, including state-specific information on picking the right plans, how to file an appeal, and what to do in the prescription drug coverage gap. The Medicare Rights Center (MRC) has made their award-winning web tool Medicare Interactive publicly available to help you navigate the Medicare maze. MI lets you search within broad topics, look up basic information, or seek out specific terms.
Medicare Rights Center: MRC is the largest independent source of health care information and assistance in the United States for people with Medicare. Founded in 1989, MRC helps older adults and people with disabilities get good, affordable health care.
MerckSource.com: A free site that offers a wide variety of core health tools and resources, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Mobility-Advisor.com: Mobility-Advisor.com serves as an educational guide on wheel chair options, mobility aids, disability resources, and recreational outlets that enhance the lives of individuals of all ages who need mobility assistance.
MyGuide for Seniors: Provides resources to seniors and their families, including a comprehensive, on line database that makes it easy to find the right independent living community, assisted living community, continuing care retirement community or nursing care for yourself or your loved one.
Myziva.net: provides a comprehensive guide to nursing homes.
NASMM: A non-profit, professional association of organizations dedicated to helping older adults and their families with the physical and emotional aspects of moving. Our members are committed to maximizing the dignity and autonomy of older adults as they transition from one living environment to another.
National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (GCM): An association of professional practitioners whose purpose is the development, advancement, and promotion of humane and dignified social, psychological, and health care for the elderly and their families through counseling, treatment, and the delivery of concrete services by qualified, certified providers.
The National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA): NFCA supports, empowers, educates, and speaks up for the more than 50 million Americans who care for a chronically ill, aged, or disabled loved one.
Nursing Home Directory: The Nursing Home Directory is a free and easy to use resource for prospective residents, families and healthcare professionals.
Online Pharmacy: iPharmacy.com is a trusted and reliable online pharmacy, providing brand name and generic prescription drugs at tremendous savings to thousands of customers worldwide.
Philly Health Info: A non-commercial, consumer health information website. Philly Health Info provides quick access to trustworthy information and local resources to residents of the Delaware Valley on over 100 health and wellness topics. It is sponsored by The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the nation’s first medical academy.
Personal Touch Health Care Apparel: A one-stop shop for all healthcare-related needs, including gowns and adaptive-wear for those who are incontinent, elderly, infirm or wheelchair-bound.
Pope Institute for Health and Education: A health care consulting firm specializing in elder and disability health care planning. The Mission of Pope Institute is to empower older adults, individuals with disabilities, and their families to take control of their health care needs and become skilled and active care managers.
Positively Sorted: A service that offers moving assistance along with downsizing and general support to seniors in transition.
Rachel Sussman, LCSW: A marriage and family therapist in New York City working with individuals, couples and families, one of Ms. Sussman's specialties is working with many families who are caring for aging family members plus coping with age-related illnesses such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
ResponseLINK: Offers push-button, emergency response service, providing seniors and their families with independence and peace of mind. Families trust ResponseLINK for its customer service, reliable equipment and 24/7 response team.
Retirement and Seniors Lifestyle: A senior lifestyle community online, with thousands of articles and tens of thousands of active members.
SafetyCare: This company provides immediate assistance for seniors through the use of hands-free, two-way voice communication system; and monitors carbon monoxide, smoke and inactivity.
Seniority Counseling & Consultation: A site committed to enhancing the lives of senior adults and their loved ones by providing the needed tools to empower them to maximize their strength and independence.
seniorDECISION: The only website featuring independent consumer reviews of nursing homes, assisted living, retirement homes, and home health care agencies. The site contains one of the web’s largest, free senior care provider databases, including more than 65,000 facilities and home health care providers nationwide.
Seniorlink Online: A comprehensive source of eldercare information for family caregivers.
Senior Living Experts: Senior Living Experts provides residents of Chicago assistance in making senior care choices.
Serenity Home Care: Provides in-home senior care to assist the elderly with medication reminders, bathing, dressing, cooking, cleaning, driving assistance for errands/doctors appointments, and especially caring companionship. Services are available as little as 4 hours/day or as much as 24-hour live-in care. Our focus is to allow our clients to remain independent, remain at home.
Share the Care: provides information about a system to organize one's family, friends, neighbors and coworkers into a caregiving team.
Silver Connections: Silver Connections provides free information and assistance to seniors, families and professionals. We are experts in senior housing and care options.
Silvert's: Provides high quality adaptive clothing for elderly care and clothing for senior special needs.
Sunshine for Seniors: A service company that provides personal in home visits to seniors for those special moments when family members can't be there. Whether it is for a birthday, anniversary, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or a simple “Just Because” visit, Sunshine for Seniors can provide that special sunshine to your loved one or special senior client.
Working Caregiver: Find working caregivers at the world's largest online caregiving community giving resources, information and products for the employed caregiver lessening the hardships of eldercare.
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