Consumer Protection
End-of-Life Care Options
Facility Searches
Glossaries
Government Information
Guides
Trends


Consumer Protection

Consumer Action Handbook
The Consumer Action Website features general advice and information on how to solve consumer problems, as well as addresses, telephone numbers, and websites where you can file consumer complaints.

End-of-Life Care Options

End of Life, Helping With Comfort and Care
This brochure offers advice and information to help family members and others during the difficult time when a loved one is near death.

Caring Connections
Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer program to educate and promote excellence in end-of-life care. You may also call 800-658-8898 for end-of-life information, including free brochures and advance directives or contact information for a hospice or other end-of-life organization.

Facility Searches

Care.com's Senior Directory
This site provides a comprehensive directory of resources in seven categories: housing resources, transportation resources, home care, end-of-life care, legal resources, financial planning and management and health care.

AAHSA Members
Search our database of over 3000 not-for-profit providers of the full continuum of aging health care, housing, and services.

Area Agencies on Aging
Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) in communities across the country help older adults remain in their homes — if they prefer — aided by services.

Eldercare Locator
The Eldercare Locator connects older Americans and their caregivers with sources of information on senior services. You may also call 1-800-677-1116 to speak to an information specialist.

Medicare - Nursing Home Compare
This is the Medicare Nursing Home Database which contains information on every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country.

Alzheimer’s Association CareFinder
The Alzheimer's Association has developed a unique Web tool that helps individuals find the right care options, from home and community-based care, to assisted living and nursing home care.

CCAC: Accredited Communities
By State These communities offer an older person a contract or contracts that provide residential living and various health care services for more than one year or the balance of his or her life, and meet the CCAC's accreditation standards.

Extended Care Information Network (ECIN)
Offers a searchable database of extended-care providers, including nursing homes, assisted-living and other senior-living residences, and home health care agencies.

Glossaries

McKnight's Online Glossary of Terms

Government Information

Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes Campaign
This two year campaign is led by a coalition of government agencies, providers and consumers focused on improving the quality of care and life for America's elderly and disabled citizens.

Disabilityinfo.gov - An Online Resource for Americans with Disabilities
DisabilityInfo.gov is the federal government's one-stop Web site for people with disabilities, their families, employers, veterans and service members, workforce professionals and others.DisabilityInfo.gov connects people with disabilities to the information and resources they need to lead more fulfilling lives.

Administration on Aging (AoA)
Information on older persons and services for the elderly, including information designed for older Americans and their families as well as those concerned about providing the opportunities and services to enrich the lives of older persons and support their independence.

Department of Veterans Affairs
Headed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, VA is the second largest of the 14 Cabinet departments and operates nationwide programs of health care, assistance services and national cemeteries.

Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy A crosscutting office charged with responsibilities for developing, analyzing, evaluating and coordinating HHS policies and programs.

NIHSeniorHealth.gov
Health information from the National Institutes of Health

Social Security Online
The Official Web site of the Social Security Administration

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health and Human Services is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.

Guides

Guide to Choosing a Retirement Community
Deciding where to live in retirement is one of the most important decisions a person can make. ACTS Retirement Communities, an AAHSA member with communities in several states, developed this resource to make that decision-making process a little easier.

Tips for Downsizing a Senior's Home
This article from Charles E. Smith Life Communities includes a variety of tips to downsize a person's belongings more efficiently and effectively.

Legal & Financial Planning for People with Alzheimer’s Disease
This sheet features tips from the National Institute on Aging for avoiding legal and financial challenges that may result from the onset of Alzheimer's Disease.

American Federation for the Blind Senior Site
The American Federation for the Blind recently developed this site to help seniors find the resources they need to live independently and productively with vision loss.

FirstGov for Seniors

MetLife Since You Care Guides Since You Care are a series of guides which provide practical suggestions and useful tools on a variety of specific care-related subjects. The guides are prepared by the MetLife Mature Market Institute in cooperation with the National Alliance for Caregiving and MetLife's Nurse Care Managers.

Trends

Aging Trends (AARP)