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Resources on Aging on the World Wide WEB
Selected Links

 

JOURNALS IN AGING
Get a compendium of key periodicals:
http://news.aarp.org/UM/T.asp?A910.52851.3033.12.903582

UC BERKELEY RESOURCE CENTER ON AGING
Home Page- http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~aging/
Library Database
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~aging/library.html (Click on Library on Aging)
Resource Center on Aging Newsletter
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~aging/ResourcesinAging.html
UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program (JMP)
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~aging/TeachingCCRC/JMP.html
Training Tomorrow’s Physicians (JMP-related article)
http://sph.berkeley.edu/alumni/magazine/mag_f04/pdf/mag_f04_9-10.pdf

AGING AND DIVERSITY
American Society on Aging
http://www.asaging.org/diversity/home.cfm
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/ageing/en/
Stanford Geriatric Education Center
http://sgec.stanford.edu/
National Center for Gerontological Social Work Education
http://depts.washington.edu/geroctr/Resources4/sub4_3_2WebDiversity.html

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIAS
Alzheimer’s Association Northern California and Northern Nevada
http://www.alznorcal.org/
Alzheimer’s Association, National Site
http://www.alz.org/
Alzheimer’s Disease Education and Referral Center (ADEAR)
http://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers of California (ARCCs)
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/CDIC/alzheimers/html/ARCCHome.htm
Jagust Lab-engaged in the study of brain aging and dementia
http://bic.berkeley.edu/jagustlab/

THE ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND MEANING
Charles Nicholas, the Elderquest, Film and Aging (UMass Boston Lifelong Learning Institute)
http://www.olli.umb.edu/
Stagebridge
http://www.seniortheatre.com/html/stagebridge.html
Time Slips
http://www.timeslips.org/
Think Back Films
http://www.thinkbackfilms.com/
The University of Delaware Library: Gerontology- A Videography
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/film/resguide/gerontology.htm
The Soul of Gerontology: Recent Writing on Religion and Aging by Harry R. Moody
http://www.hrmoody.com/art3.html
Literature and Medicine: An On-Line Guide
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/128/11/959
The Center for Creative Aging West
http://www.creativeagingwest.org/index.html
Center for Elders and Youth in the Arts
http://www.ioaging.org/services/special/program_ceya/

ASSESSMENT TOOLS
University of Iowa Geriatric Education
http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/igec/tools/default.asp
Dr. Robert Stall's Home Page
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~drstall/assessmenttools.html (Can be translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish)
Institute for Geriatric Nurse Assessment
http://www.hartfordign.org/resources/education/tryThis.html

CAREERS IN AGING
AgeWork (Jobs in Aging)
http://www.geron.org/agework/index.html
UC Berkeley Resource Center on Aging Jobs in Aging E-listing, California. 
email ddriver@berkeley.edu to be placed on the list
Resources for Developing Your Career in Aging- Association of Gerontology in Higher Education
http://www.aghe.org/site/aghewebsite/section.php?id=6628

CAREGIVING-RELATED
Family Caregiver Alliance
http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/home.jsp
Alameda County Adult Day Services Network
http://www.adsnac.org/
Eldercare Locator
http://www.eldercare.gov/Eldercare/Public/Home.asp

COMMUNITY LEARNING INSTITUTES/PROGRAMS
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, National Resource Center (University of Southern Maine)
http://www.usm.maine.edu/olli/national/index.jsp
Elderhostel
http://www.elderhostel.org/

CONSUMER SITES
Assisted Living Facilities Directory
http://www.assisted-living-directory.com/index.cfm
National Institute on Aging- Age Pages
http://www.niapublications.org/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=45&cat=All+Age+Pages
AARP
http://www.aarp.org/
Medline Plus- National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/seniorshealth.html

CURRICULA IN AGING
The UCSF Academic Geriatric Resource Center Online Curriculum
http://ucsfagrc.org/
National Center for Gerontological Social Work Education: Gero-Ed Center
http://depts.washington.edu/geroctr/

END-OF-LIFE/PALLIATIVE CARE
The End of Life: Exploring Death in America, National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/programs/death/
Veterans Administration Nationwide Palliative Care Network
http://www1.va.gov/geriatricsshg/page.cfm?pg=65
Last Acts
http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=20938


GERIATRICS
Merck Manual of Geriatrics
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmg/home.jsp
The UCSF/AGRP Online Curriculum
http://www.ucsfagrc.org/
The Hartford Consortium for Geriatrics in Residency Training
http://sugerc.stanford.edu/index0.html
American Geriatrics Society
http://www.americangeriatrics.org/
Portal of Geriatric Online Education (POGOe)
http://www.pogoe.org/
New Yorker article and broadcast- Atule Gawande
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/30/070430fa_fact_gawande
http://www.radioopensource.org/the-new-age-of-old-age/

HEALTH
Merck Manual of Geriatrics
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mm_geriatrics/
Trends on Aging & Health—CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/agingact.htm

HEALTH ISSUES/POLICY/HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
Harry R. Moody’s Aging Concepts and Controversies book, 5th edition, and accompanying web resources:
http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?currTree=Subjects&level1=100&prodId=Book227643
http://www.sagepub.com/moody5study/
Aging Policy and Politics Group A Related Group of the American Political Science Association
http://www.silcom.com/~anag999/APPG.htm
A History of Long Term Care by Karen Stevenson Brown
http://www.elderweb.com/home/
White House Conference on Aging Final Report
http://www.whcoa.gov/about/about.asp#report

HEALTH AND AGING
Live Well, Live Long—CDC & ASA
http://www.asaging.org/cdc/index.cfm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Healthy Aging Research Network
http://depts.washington.edu/harn/members.shtml
National Institutes of Health
http://nihseniorhealth.gov/
UCSF Memory and Aging Center
http://memory.ucsf.edu/index.html

INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS
Report from Hartford Foundation five-year Initiative “Geriatric Interdisciplinary Teams in Practice”
http://www.jhartfound.org/program/interdisciplinary_training.htm
The Royal College of Nursing: Developing and Sustaining Effective Teams
http://www.rcn.org.uk/publications/pdf/003115.pdf

LEGAL ISSUES
The National Elder Law Network
http://wmitchell.edu/elderlaw/index.html

LONG TERM CARE: CULTURE CHANGE
Pioneer Network
http://www.pioneernetwork.net/
The Eden Alternative
http://www.edenalt.com/welcome.htm
Lumetra
http://www.lumetra.com/nursinghomes/index.asp

LIST SERVS
Gerinet—Gerinet is a mailing list of individuals interested in geriatric social and health care.  It is intended to have multidisciplinary representation (e.g. physicians, nurses, social workers physical therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, speech therapists, lawyers, nursing home administrators, etc.) that includes individuals concerned about the well-being of older adults.  To subscribe: http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=gerinet&A=1

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN AGING
AARP
http://www.aarp.org/index.html
Administration on Aging (AoA)
http://www.aoa.gov/
American Society on Aging (ASA)
http://www.asaging.org/index.cfm
Gerontological Society of America (GSA)
http://www.geron.org/
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
http://www.nia.nih.gov/
United States Senate Special Committee on Aging
http://aging.senate.gov/

NUTRITION
International Academy of Nutrition & Aging
http://www.healthandage.com/html/min/iananda/index.htm
Nutrition and Aging—Colorado State University Cooperative Extension
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/foodnut/09322.html

ORAL HEALTH
Oral Health in America (includes information on older adults)
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/news/pressreleases/pr_oral_52000.htm
University of Manatoba Centre for Community Oral Health
http://umanitoba.ca/dentistry/ccoh/ccoh_longTermCare.html

PHARMACOLOGY/DRUGS
Merck Manual of Geriatrics: Chapter 6: Clinical Pharmacology
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmg/sec1/ch6/ch6a.jsp

RESEARCH/REPORTS
Pub Med- A service of the National Library of Medicine & the National Institutes of Health
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed
Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging (CITRA)
http://www.citra.org/index.php
Social Work Leadership Institute
http://socialworkleadership.org/nsw/cap/ebp.php
How to Use AgeLine: Online Demo & Related Resources
This site offers an introduction to using AARP's AgeLine Database for gerontology research. It is  particularly helpful for students and others to use before preparing term papers, presentations, and literature searches.  See:  http://www.aarp.org/research/ageline/gero.html
Government Accounting Office
http://www.gao.gov/ (Type aging in their search engine, or a more specific topic, e.g. long-term care or Medicare)
Office of the Inspector General
http://www.oig.hhs.gov/oei/oeisearch.html (Type aging in their search engine, or a more specific topic, e.g. long-term care or Medicare)
AARP Public Policy Institute
http://research.aarp.org/ppi/
National Bureau of Economic Research
http://www.nber.org/aginghealth/
Urban Institute
http://www.urban.org/retirees/index.cfm
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
http://www.nber.org/programs/ag/datacd.html (working papers on NIA-funded research)
http://www.nber.org/wwp.html (a complete list of NBER working papers with searchable abstracts and full texts of working papers since Nov. 1994)
Evaluating & Citing WEB sites for research
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
How to Cite WEB Resources in Research Papers
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/cite.html

STATISTICAL/DEMOGRAPHIC DATA
AgingStats.Gov—Web Site of the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics
www.agingstats.gov
Age Data at the Census
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/age.html
Developments in Aging
http://www.gpo.gov/congress/senate/senate22lp106.html
Profile of Older Americans: 2007
http://www.agingcarefl.org/aging/AOA-2007profile.pdf
California Department on Aging
http://www.aging.ca.gov/
Population Pyramids-This page allows you to obtain population pyramids (graphs that show the distribution of population by age and sex) for one country.  For fun, click on dynamic and watch the pyramid change.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/pyramids.html
Life Expectancy- Nation Master
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/hea_lif_exp_at_bir_tot_pop (before visiting this site, guess what nation has the highest life expectancy

“SUCCESSFUL” AGING
Definition
http://ncsu.edu/ffci/publications/1996/v1-n3-1996-summer/successful-aging.php
Bibliography on Successful Aging
http://hdcs.fullerton.edu/csa/publications.htm

UC BERKELEY AGING-RELATED CENTERS/PROGRAMS
Resource Center on Aging
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~aging/
Center for Economics & Demography in Aging
http://www.ceda.berkeley.edu/
Center for Research & Education in Aging (CREA)
http://crea.berkeley.edu/
Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services
http://cssr.berkeley.edu/research_units/casas/index.html
Center for Learning in Retirement (CLIR)
http://www.clirsf.org/
California Senior Leaders Program—School of Public Health
http://calseniorleaders.org
The Retirement Center
http://thecenter.berkeley.edu/
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
http://www.olli.berkeley.edu/
Elder Care Program
http://www.uhs.berkeley.edu/Facstaff/CARE/eldercare/

WEB SITES ON AGING
AARP- more than 900 sites on aging.
http://www.aarp.org/internetresources/
AgeNet
http://www.agenet.com/


This site is a service of the Resource Center on Aging, University of California, Berkeley. Inclusion of material in any section of this WEB site is for information purposes only, and does not constitute endorsement by the University of California, the Academic Geriatric Resource Program, or the UC Berkeley Resource Center on Aging.
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Portions of this page were last revised, December, 2008

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