Resources

 

RSS Feeds

Government Sites

  • Medicare.gov. An all-purpose site with interactive tools for planning and paying for long-term care and choosing among drug plans. Includes searchable inspection results, good and bad, for the all the nation’s skilled nursing facilities.
  • NIHSeniorHealth.gov. A collaboration of the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine that provides authoritative information on all diseases and disorders of old age. Each section is available in both large-type and audio versions.
  • National Institute on Aging. Describes ongoing research on aging and lists clinical trials seeking participants.
  • U.S. Administration on Aging. Brief fact sheets on aging and links to outside resources for an assortment of caregiving issues, including financial planning, residential options, in-home services, case management and the law.

New York State Resources

Housing and Services

Caregiving

Legal and Financial

End of Life

  • The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. An excellent search tool for finding a hospice, as well as guides on issues related to palliative care, including Medicare coverage and techniques for communicating end-of-life wishes.
  • Caring Connections. Contains of the consumer information from NHPCO and has state-by-state advance directive forms.
  • Compassion and Choices.
  • Hospice Foundation of America. Information on end-of-life issues, such as pain management. One section called “Caregivers Corner” has links, reading lists and a self-assessment tool for caregivers to analyze their own strengths and weaknesses.

Miscellaneous

  • Elder Care. An eccentric site that includes the history of long-term care policy in America, census maps that show the concentration of people 60 and over, book reviews, updates on state laws affecting the elderly, and a dictionary of eldercare jargon.
  • Eldercare Online. This site has a home-made look and is difficult to navigate, but includes a wealth of original and imported information.
  • Caring.com. An all-in-one site with advice on caregiving, long-term care, talking with elders and insurance issues.
  • National Care Planning Council. A work in progress from a couple who “didn’t have a life for five years” while caring for four elderly parents. Now a membership organization advocating for long-term care.
  • Third Age. Articles, expert interviews, quizzes and discussion boards for caregivers.
  • Elder Issues. Some interesting articles on caregiving. Primarily the site for a company marketing online medical records for elderly persons.
  • Aging Parents and Eldercare. A commercial site with free access to same checklists, worksheets and on-line assessment tools found elsewhere. For sale are products like wheelchairs and incontinence supplies.
  • KaiserEdu. An educational site from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Includes a variety of slide tutorials and podcasts on financial and policy issues related to long-term care.

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Orange, Rockland, and Westchester Counties

New York City: (646) 930-4677
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New Jersey: (973) 318-9337
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Long Island: (516) 243-7459
Nassau and Suffolk Counties

Pennsylvania: (484) 506-2766
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