Life span issues
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TCGEC Distance Learning Resources
Description: The Texas Consortium Geriatrics Education Center (TCGEC)
The TCGEC Distance Learning Initiative offers distant learners the opportunity to engage in online education that meets their learning needs and is taken at their convenience.
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Active Aging: Making the Most Out of Life 
Description: This fact sheet presents an overview of various ways older adults can take active roles in making their later years healthier and happier.
Advance Directives for Health Care
Author: Marsden, Anne-Michelle (12 more by this author)
Description: Provides information on the importance of advance care directives. Advance care directives help the family of the loved one, know what healthcare decisions to make, if they were placed in the position of making potential life and death health care decisions for their loved one.
Author: Dobb, Lynn (2 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on the vocabulary of aging. It provides a detailed glossary of aging terminology.
Author: Bosch, Kathy (2 more by this author)
Description: Explains the sexual stages and phases that an aging man and woman may go through as older adults.
Description: An aging program designed to help people age with gusto by teaching them how to achieve optimum financial, physical and mental wellbeing in their later years. They also learn how to prepare for and cope with problems related to finances, legal issues, health, caregiving, housing, and selfcare.
American Saving Education Council
Description: The American Savings Education Council - a coalition of private and public sector institutions - undertakes initiatives to raise public awareness about what is needed to ensure long-term personal financial independence. ASEC's goal is to make saving and planning a vital concern of Americans and in the economic interests of employers.
Author: Shriner, Joyce (2 more by this author)
Description: Describes each of the four main areas of care for those who are coping with dying †physical, psychological, social, and spiritual. While the information applies directly to the dying person, it is also relevant to others who are coping with dying family members, friends, and associates of the dying person, as well as professional and volunteer caregivers.
Communication About the End of Life
Author: Price, Christine (10 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on communication regarding death. It provides information,
ideas, or tips on how to mentally and economically prepare for the death of a loved one.
Decision Making, Communication, and Living Wills
Author: Marsden, Anne-Michelle (12 more by this author)
Description: The living will issue is about decisions which adults, young and old alike, make concerning their health care. It involves making decisions now so that in the event an individual cannot make healthcare decisions in the future, his or her wishes will be known. An advance care directive is the document in which a person’s wishes for future health care and use of life sustaining measures are recorded.
Developing Motivation For Lifelong Learning
Author: Wlodkowski, Raymond
Description: This article provides discusses the importance of developing motivation in order to help people of all ages feel interested and excited about learning.
Final Wishes: End-of-life Decisions
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides a thoughtful set of suggestions for helping family members deal with end-of-life decisions.
Description: This site, from the Office of Citizen Services and Communications, U.S. General Services Administration, offers a wide array of resources on issues facing the elderly. Includes information on consumer protection, volunteerism, health, laws, retirement, taxes, travel and leisure.
Glossary of Terms for End of Life Planning
Author: Price, Christine (10 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on the terms and vocabulary one should know regarding end of life planning. It provides information, ideas, or tips on how to effectively understand what to do next.
GROWING OLDER: THE OLD-OLD YEARS
Description: A true or false questionnaire in reference to the fast growing segment of our population – the older adults, so that we understand the growth, development, and changes that occur in the later years of life.
GROWING OLDER:THE YOUNG-OLD YEARS
Description: A study program to explore some of the normal changes that occur in young-old years and the implications of these changes.
It's Your Choice...Living Wills
Author: Marsden, Anne-Michelle (12 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet describing the details of the Will process.
Know Where You Are Going and What to Expect Before You Get There
Author: McCann, Michael
Description: "There are many names for long-term care facilities in the market place. In practice, it is useful to compare facilities by the services they offer, rather than by the name they are called. Nevertheless, the official designation is meaningful in how a facility is regulated and what public funding sources are available to pay for care."
Author: Shriner, Joyce (3 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on the last wishes of someone you know. It discusses such subjects as sustaining life, improved care, and making one's wishes known.
Learning to Live Through Loss: Grief and the Mourning Process
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet addresses grief and the mourning process and how to assist family members in the process.
Learning to Live Through Loss: Helping Children Understand Death
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is aimed at helping people understand how children view death and how they can help a child cope with the death of a loved one.
Learning to Live Through Loss: Understanding Men Who Grieve
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet focuses on how men’s grief sometimes differs from women’s and how understanding these differences can be helpful.
Little Old Ladies and Grumpy Old Men: How Language Shapes Our Views About Aging
Author: Bearon, Lucille
Description: This is a fact sheet on how language shapes people's views on aging.
Making A Change: Keys to Success
Author: Marsden, Anne-Michelle (12 more by this author); Sylvia Ridlen, Ph.D.
Description: This may your first attempt at a certain change, or you may be trying again after a change did not last. In either case, you would like to succeed this time. Think about these five activities that will help you make a change.
Making a Change: Priorities, Goal Setting and Action
Author: Marsden, Anne-Michelle (12 more by this author); Sylvia Ridlen, Ph.D.
Description: A Fact Sheet on how to change your relationships, Physical well-being, Resource Management, and psychological well-being by setting priorities, goals and taking action.
Description: Focuses on the how the sense of smell and taste start to diminish or dull around the age of sixty.
Quick Guide to Health Literacy and Older Adults
Description: The Quick Guide from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides background information on health literacy and strategies and suggestions for communicating with older adults.
Relocation-Housing Alternatives for Later Years
Description: Focuses on how housing is a difficult problem as people age and how there are many reasons to think about giving up the house tat served their needs in earlier years.
Rethinking "Retirement": What's In A Word?
Description: Explains the words retire and retirement in further detail and how the words came about.
Seniors Beware: Avoiding Con Artist Schemes
Author: Holmes, Patricia (4 more by this author); Terri Tallman; Kathy Jelley
Description: A publication referring to con-artists and how they are attracted to seniors and retirees. Including a list of warning signs of a con-artist and their rip-off.
Author: Price, Christine (10 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on the strength of your sibling relationships.
Description: Focuses on the psychological and social issues of aging well, as well as briefly covering exercise and nutrition for the elderly.
Author: Shriner, Joyce (3 more by this author)
Description: Provides suggestions on a number of things someone can do to provide support and comfort to others going through the pain of a loved one's death.
The Coming Agequake: Boom Or Bust?
Description: Explains the effects that the growing aged community may have on the nation and the world that may range from a triumph of human civilization to a formula for financial bankruptcy.
Author: Marsden, Anne-Michelle (12 more by this author); Sylvia Ridlen, Ph.D.
Description: Change is one thing in life that is certain. Sooner or later, every major part of life changes. Relationships, physical health, emotions, finances, and ways of spending time do not stay the same. Some changes are positive and welcome, while others are not. Some changes are temporary, but others are permanent. People choose some changes and must accept others, but nobody escapes change.
When Does Someone Attain Old Age?
Author: Goard, Linnette (5 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet discussing how age-related changes occur at different rates for different persons.
Author: Saddam, Alma (2 more by this author)
Description: Most of us avoid thinking about the possibility that someday one or both of our parents won't be self-sufficient. As a result, most families are unprepared to handle parents' increased dependency. This fact sheet provides some ways to help plan for helping aging parents.
Young Children's Understanding of Death
Author: Shriner, Joyce (3 more by this author)
Description: Provides suggestions on ways to explain death to a young child and discusses fears and issues that young children typically have.
– Professional Development –
Description: National Council on Aging (NCOA) is a charitable organization with a national network of more than 14,000 organizations and leaders. Members include senior centers, area agencies on aging, adult day service centers, faith-based service organizations, senior housing facilities, employment services, consumer groups, and leaders from academia, business, and labor. Programs help older people remain healthy and independent, find jobs, increase access to benefits programs, and discover meaningful ways to continue contributing to society. Includes links to professional development and ways to become involved in the Aging Advocacy Network.
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"Honey, I'm Home!" - For Good: The Transition to Retirement
Author: Bloir, Kirk (5 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses what to expect during the adjustment to retirement and the transition into life at home.
Active Aging: Making the Most Out of Life
Description: This fact sheet presents an overview of various ways older adults can take active roles in making their later years healthier and happier.
Description: An aging program designed to help people age with gusto by teaching them how to achieve optimum financial, physical and mental wellbeing in their later years. They also learn how to prepare for and cope with problems related to finances, legal issues, health, caregiving, housing, and selfcare.
Author: Robertson, Anne
Description: This site links to a wide array of fact sheets on issues facing parents and families, from aging to child care.
Final Wishes: End-of-life Decisions
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides a thoughtful set of suggestions for helping family members deal with end-of-life decisions.
Description: This program is aimed at helping family members deal with the inheritance of personal property.
Helping Children Cope with Death
Author: Temke, Mary (23 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet suggests age-appropriate way to help children understand and cope with the death of a loved one.
Ithaca College Gerontology Institute
Description: This site provides educational resources, information on upcoming lectures, and research in gerontology.
Learning to Live Through Loss: Grief and the Mourning Process
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet addresses grief and the mourning process and how to assist family members in the process.
Learning to Live Through Loss: Helping Children Understand Death
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is aimed at helping people understand how children view death and how they can help a child cope with the death of a loved one.
Learning to Live Through Loss: Understanding Men Who Grieve
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet focuses on how men’s grief sometimes differs from women’s and how understanding these differences can be helpful.
Little Old Ladies and Grumpy Old Men: How Language Shapes Our Views About Aging
Author: Bearon, Lucille
Description: This is a fact sheet on how language shapes people's views on aging.
Author: Price, Christine (10 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses how retiring couples need to adjust to retirement and provides tips for how this new life stage can begin with few problems or difficulties.
Description: National Council on Aging (NCOA) is a charitable organization with a national network of more than 14,000 organizations and leaders. Members include senior centers, area agencies on aging, adult day service centers, faith-based service organizations, senior housing facilities, employment services, consumer groups, and leaders from academia, business, and labor. Programs help older people remain healthy and independent, find jobs, increase access to benefits programs, and discover meaningful ways to continue contributing to society. Includes links to professional development and ways to become involved in the Aging Advocacy Network.
Author: Van Dyke, Shirley
Description: This fact sheet describes the positive aspects of growing older, such as being wiser and having the opportunity to become grandparents.
Reminiscence: An Important Task for Older Adults
Author: Warren, Judith (2 more by this author)
Description: All people anticipate future events and 'think back through' their past experiences. Throughout life we draw upon events in the past to attempt to cope with the ever-changing realities in our world. We use past experiences to illuminate problems of the present. Reminiscence or life review is one of the primary tools for carving out who we are and what our existence means.
Seniors Beware: Avoiding Con Artist Schemes
Author: Holmes, Patricia (4 more by this author); Terri Tallman; Kathy Jelley
Description: A publication referring to con-artists and how they are attracted to seniors and retirees. Including a list of warning signs of a con-artist and their rip-off.
Spanish Language National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Description: Accurate, up-to-date information on health issues affecting Hispanic seniors is now available online in Spanish from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The user-friendly website has information on a wide range of health topics, including diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer and diabetes.
Too Old to Drive? Tips for Safe Driving
Author: Quick, Sam (32 more by this author); Larry Piercy; Jan McCulloch
Description: This fact sheet presents a sensitive discussion of the issue many elderly face as their driving skills diminish focusing on tips for safe driving.
Walk In My Shoes (A 4-H Aging Awareness Project)
Description: An activity project that reaches across generations and teaches young people about growing older and the physical changes that occur with age. It also teaches those who come in contact with older citizens how to more effectively communicate with them and serve their needs. The project materials are available online.
Weill Cornell Center for Aging Research and Clinical Care
Description: The mission of this center is to improve the quality-of-life of older adults through an integration of Cornell's Aging Programs in research, clinical care, and teaching.
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65+ in the United States: 2005
Description: This report provides a picture of the health and socioeconomic status of the aging population. It highlights striking shifts in aging on a population scale and also describes changes at the local and even family level, examining.
A Life Worth Living - The Science of Human Flourishing
Description: This article highlights Cornell University Professor Anthony Ong’s research examines the enduring balm that positive emotions can provide for the stresses of life, even the stress of interpersonal loss.
Description: An aging program designed to help people age with gusto by teaching them how to achieve optimum financial, physical and mental wellbeing in their later years. They also learn how to prepare for and cope with problems related to finances, legal issues, health, caregiving, housing, and selfcare.
An Aging World: 2008, International Populations Reports
Description: This report discusses the trend of the world’s aging population.
Financial Vulnerability at Older Ages
Description: This report examines different types of negative events that strike at older ages. The study reports the prevalence of health problems among adults age 51 to 61 and those age 70 and older. It then computes the incidence of widowhood, divorce, job layoffs, disability, nursing home entry, and various medical conditions over time and examines their impact on wealth and income.
Golden Years Are Active Years, Study Shows
Description: This is the results of a study on activities of people 55 years and older. The study found that almost 80% of those ages 55 and older spend time working, volunteering for an organization, taking care of family members, or helping people outside their own households.
Ithaca College Gerontology Institute
Description: This site provides educational resources, information on upcoming lectures, and research in gerontology.
Trends in Job Demands among Older Workers, 1992-2002
Author: Johnson, Richard (1 more by this author)
Description: This report takes a look at older workers and the impact on the nation's ability to support retirees. The share of workers ages 55 to 60 in jobs that never require much physical effort increased 18 percent between 1992 and 2002. At the same time, the share who strongly agree that their job is more difficult than in the past rose by 34 percent.
Weill Cornell Center for Aging Research and Clinical Care
Description: The mission of this center is to improve the quality-of-life of older adults through an integration of Cornell's Aging Programs in research, clinical care, and teaching.