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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