| Aging With Dignity |
The non-profit Aging With Dignity provides the popular advanced directives document "Five Wishes," which helps you express how you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself. It is unique among all other living will and health agent forms because it looks to all of a person's needs: medical, personal, emotional and spiritual.
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Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) - Factsheets
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The IAS is a British institute concerned with increasing the knowledge of alcohol and the social and health consequences of its misuse.
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| Medicare Rights Center (MRC) |
Providing free counseling services to people with Medicare questions or problems, MRC is the largest independent source of health care information and assistance in the United States for people with Medicare.
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| National Academy on an Aging Society |
As a non-partisan public policy institute, the Academy actively conducts research on issues related to population aging and provides information to the public, the press, policymakers, and the academic community.
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| National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) |
NAC provides support to family caregivers and the professionals who help them and works to increase public awareness of issues facing family caregivers.
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| National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (N4A) |
The umbrella organization for the 655 area agencies on aging (AAAs) and more than 230 Title VI Native American aging programs in the U.S. Provides a network for and connects individuals to local AAAs.
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| National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA) |
This site provides comprehensive information and assistance on Elder Abuse, including fact sheets, elder abuse laws, past publications, and links to other sites.
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| National Chronic Care Consortium (NCCC) |
NCCC is an organization of leading-edge health networks dedicated to transforming the delivery of chronic care services, who share a vision of integrated care for individuals with chronic health conditions, from the time of earliest condition awareness until problem resolution or death.
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| National Family Caregivers Association (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. NFCA reaches across the boundaries of different diagnoses, different relationships and different life stages to address the common needs and concerns of all family caregivers.
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| On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying |
The popular Bill Moyers' PBS documentary on death and dying in America. While this site is built around the documentary, it offers several resources on death and dying.
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| The U.S. Living Will Registry |
The U.S. Living Will Registry is a privately held organization that electronically stores advance directives, organ donor information and emergency contact information, and makes them available to health care providers across the country 24 hours a day through an automated system. Our policies and procedures were developed in consultation with attorneys who represent hospitals. Because only health care providers have access to the documents and information, privacy and confidentiality are maintained. |
