Long term care
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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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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.
Community Partnerships for Older Adults
Description: Community Partnerships for Older Adults is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that works with communities to improve the systems delivering long term care and supportive services to vulnerable older adults and their caregivers.
Critical Conversations About Financing Long Term Care
Description: A curriculum developed to increase the awareness of the need to plan for changing health and independence as a later life event impacting financial security, to help consumers identify and communicate strategies to manage the risk of long term care and to change behaviors and practices regarding long term risk management.
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.
Financial Security in Later Life
Author: Kahler, James (4 more by this author)
Description: Financial security is the ability to meet future needs while keeping pace with day-to-day obligations. Preparing for retirement and potential long-term care costs takes planning, saving, and debt control. This Cooperative Extension initiative seeks to help people improve personal finance behaviors leading to financial security in later life, enhance the capacity of local educators and their partners to deliver effective programs, and increase economic vitality and quality of life for families and communities. The site has two parts, one for consumers looking for information and educational programs, and second for community educators implementing this initiative.
Financing Long Term Care: A Resource Center for Families
Author: Crocoll, Caroline
Description: Provides information, toolkits, online self-study and educator resources on helping families plan ahead for long-term care.
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.
Description: This website provides information on transitions of the lives of aging adults. It includes such topics as: feeling overwhelmed, taking care of the caregiver, and care giving 101.
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: 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.
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.
Moving your loved one to a nursing home: What you can do
Author: Price, Christine (10 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on moving a loved one into a nursing home or assisted living center.
Respite for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease or Related Dementia
Author: Louis, Joyce
Description: Alzheimer's disease is a brain disorder, a distinct disease, that results in progressive failure of the person to remember, think, reason, perceive, and make judgments. Eventually the brain shuts down all vital functions, and death occurs. At present, there is no cure. Alzheimer's is a type of dementia.
Sages of the Ages: Stories that Touch and Teach
Description: This website links to a series of stories aimed at building resilience capacity through intergenerational storytelling.
Author: Holmes, Patricia (4 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on selecting adult daycare. It provides information, ideas, or tips on providing the correct daycare for adults.
The National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care Information
Description: The National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care Information Web site provides comprehensive information about long-term care planning, services and financing options, along with tools to help people begin the planning process.
Tips when visiting a nursing home
Author: Price, Christine (10 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on how to properly approach and visit a nursing home.
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2006-2007 Cooperative Extension System Publication on Aging Issues
Description: This publication provides resources and contacts on aging issues, organized by state. It includes the name and contact information for each of the partner institutions, as well as more detailed contact information for the heads of the aging education programs. Where the states have specific extension or other programs related to aging issues, more information describing the program is included.
Alzheimer's Caregiving at Home Toolkit
Description: Alzheimer's disease knows no boundaries and all communities face the challenges of caring for families needing support and guidance. As the number of people suffering from or caring for someone with Alzheimer's grows, the need for information on caregiving increases. This workshop planning kit is designed to provide educators and health care providers with successful presentation tools and resources to conduct workshops for non-professional individuals providing informal, at-home caregiving.
Alzheimer's Caregiving at Home Toolkit
Description: Alzheimer's disease knows no boundaries and all communities face the challenges of caring for families needing support and guidance. As the number of people suffering from or caring for someone with Alzheimer's grows, the need for information on caregiving increases. This workshop planning kit is designed to provide educators and health care providers with successful presentation tools and resources to conduct workshops for non-professional individuals providing informal, at-home caregiving.
Alzheimer's Caregiving at Home Toolkit
Description: This workshop planning kit is designed to provide educators and health care providers with successful presentation tools and resources to conduct workshops for non-professional individuals providing informal, at-home caregiving with loved ones suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Brookdale Foundation: The Brookdale Relatives As Parents Program (RAPP)
Description: This site focuses on the needs and challenges of America's elderly population.
Description: This guidebook is for caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease.
Critical Conversations About Financing Long Term Care
Description: A curriculum developed to increase the awareness of the need to plan for changing health and independence as a later life event impacting financial security, to help consumers identify and communicate strategies to manage the risk of long term care and to change behaviors and practices regarding long term risk management.
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.
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: 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.
Author: Kerr, Mary
Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of music therapy, the systematic application of music to aid in the treatment of physiological and psychological aspects on an illness or disability, and discusses the benefits of music especially to older adults.
Sages of the Ages: Stories that Touch and Teach
Description: This website links to a series of stories aimed at building resilience capacity through intergenerational storytelling.
The National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care Information
Description: The National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care Information Web site provides comprehensive information about long-term care planning, services and financing options, along with tools to help people begin the planning process.
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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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.
Ithaca College Gerontology Institute
Description: This site provides educational resources, information on upcoming lectures, and research in gerontology.
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.