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         Links

www.4therapy.com – find a therapist in your area

www.ageguide.org - Northeastern Illinois Area Agency on Aging.  Serving DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, McHenry & Will Counties.

 www.adaptive-apparel.com – information and vendor for clothing for the disabled

 www.agenet.com - information and referral network providing information about products and services that are important to enhancing the quality of life of older adults and their families.    

www.alzheimers.org - Information about Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders

www.alz.org

 www.aoa.dhhs.gov - Administration on Aging - Information designed for Older Americans and their families

 www.aoa.dhhs.gov/jpost/gr.caregiving.html - A central source for links to key off-site web sites on areas of interest on aging.

 www.boomerbasics.com - Everything you need to know about the issues facing you, your children and your parents.

 www.boomerbooks.com - good book site

 www.bridge-link.com - Operates primarily as a long-term care and eldercare Care Planning & Resource Program for private sector employers, employees and association members.  They maintain the largest database of care services and providers in the country (i.e.: home heath care, assisted living, nursing homes, home chore and repair, etc)

 www.brain.nwu.edu – Northwestern University Medical School’s Department of Neurology. Very informative site offering information on a variety of disorders.

 www.braintalk.org – Harvard Medical School’s site offering information about a large spectrum of brain disorders. Bulletin Boards for participants are available

 www.caregiving.com - A service that will lead you to the information, services, products and providers that will assist you today and help you plan for tomorrow.

 www.caregiver911.com - Caregiver Survival Resources.  Provides Internet links, organizations that provide specific support for caregivers, and other resources that might assist you in your caregiving responsibilities.

 www.caregiversarmy.com – a great caregiver support site with a petition available  to encourage better funding for a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease

 www.caregiverzone.com - caregiver resources for family caregivers

 www.carequest.com - Carequest Plus is a program for employers/employees/ management/employees/retirees and a Member Assistance Program for individuals and families.  The program addresses just about every issue one may encounter including legal, personal and family mental health, childcare, grand parenting, parenting, long-term care, eldercare, recuperative care, and substance abuse.

 www.carethere.com – a site offering financial, legal and personal resources for caregivng families. Very comprehensive.

 www.christiancaregivers.com - information about caregiving from a spiritual perspective

 www.comfortclothing.com – vendor for adaptive clothing for the disabled

 http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=1cjp&list – a great site listing over 100 sites dedicated to helping those with disabilities

 www.ec-online.net - Provides an online community where supportive peers and professionals help you improve the quality of life for yourself and your elder.

 www.elderweb.com - The most comprehensive database for senior oriented legal & financial information.

 www.epill.com – vendor for medication and pill reminder type dispensing systems

 www.equitable.com - publishes an eldercare financial planning guide

 www.extendedcare.com - contains resources for Chicago area caregivers regarding housing and caregiving.

 www.4therapy.com – provides a listing and referrals to mental health professionals

 www.fda.gov/medwatch – site for information on medications and product recalls Much useful information

 www.firstgov.gov - an "umbrella site" linking to all US governmental agencies

 www.fitnesslink.com - Fitness information.

 www.goldviolin.com - offers stylish accessories and gift items (not clothes). Examples: beautiful canes, pillboxes, leather gel cushions, etc. It is worth checking out.

 www.thehartford.com/alzheimers/  - a site to help caregivers with the driving issue. Contains an excellent boolket to address the issue.

www.thehungersite.com – not really an information site, but a great place to do your good deed for the day. Click thru on the link and you will feed the hungry. The corporate sponsors of the site donate money based on the number of hits the site gets per day. You can only click once per day on it and each of its sister sites.

 www.henryweb.com/caregivers – oriented towards Alzheimer’s caregivers, this site is part of The Disability Ring of websites. Has many good links to other sites.

www.healthgrades.com - information about health care providers and facilities

 www.interfaithcalendar.org - lists holidays of all faiths

 www.irsc.org/clothing  - a great site offering links to vendors who sell adaptive clothing and products for wheelchair bound and mobility impaired people

 www.kidney.org – website for the national Kidney Foundation

 www.lewy.net - information about Lewy Body Dementia

 www.mayohealth.org - Updated medical information everyday from Mayo Clinic.

 www.medicare.gov - all about medicare and contains links to local nursing home ratings 

 www.medicareadvocacy.org – this site provides updates on changes to the medicare program that affect medicare recipients

 www.medicinecabinet.com

 www.missingmoney.com - a free site sponsored by the national association of unclaimed property custodians. Not all of the states are on the list yet, but it promises to be a good resource for tracking down decedent's estates or incapacitated people's estates.

www.navigator.tufts.edu - Designed to help you sort through the large volume of nutrition information on the Internet and find accurate useful nutrition information.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ - The National Library of medicine's search service that provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals.

 www.nih.gov/health/consumer/conicd.htm - National Institutes of Health publications provides an overview of NIH and also serves as a point-of-entry to the many individual organizations that make up NIH.  The site assists the users in finding relevant information and services, and highlights important items of interest to the public and the medical research community.

 www.nsclc.org  - Congress has enacted legislation to penalize SSI recipients for transferring resources, and establishing trust rules for them. Click on "what's new" at for further details.

 www.psycom.net/depression.central.html This site is Internet's central clearinghouse for information on all types of depressive disorders.

www.rarediseases.org – National Organization for Rare Diseases offers information on several hundred rare diseases as well as links to other rare disease sites.

 www.reutershealth.com - A consumer-oriented medical mews service that delivers the top clinically relevant healthcare news featuring stories on men, women and children's health, diet, exercise, treatment advances and disease management.  Provides in-depth medical information that is easy to understand.

 www.rehabmart.com – have many health and therapy items of use to disabled

www.rehabmall.com     individuals

 www.reverse.org - facts and consumer info about reverse mortgages

 www.stepfamilyinfo.org - not just for the Brady Bunch. Over 40% of us are part of a stepfamily

 www.savewell.com – a buying club offered thru Medical Mutual of Ohio. Offers savings on medications, vision care, chiropractic and dental services among others

 www.seniordrugs.com - Provides information and referral network, provides information that helps address some of the common problems and complications related to older adults and prescription medication.

 www.seniorhousing.net  - provides information about retirement communities and long term care. Offers a 360°view of apartments and living arrangements

 www.seniorlink.com – an information and referral network with referrals to resources in your area

 www.silverts.com  - the largest selection of adaptive clothing on the internet  

www.socialsecurityssn.com - the social security information center.

 www.stroketoolbox.com - A guide to stroke rehabilitation and assessment - Information for older adults and family.

 www.triciasofacton.com – provider of adaptive clothing for the disabled

 www.4women.gov - Health information and referral center for women.

 http://www.opm.gov/insure/ltc. – a website that gives comparisons of the different LTC insurance policies available

http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Software/Anti_virus_freeware/  

www.ravantivirus.com - this site will run a scan of your computer while online

www.free-antivirus.com

www.topdownloads.net/

www.webattack.com/Freeware/security/fwvirus.shtml  

www.mailgate.com  - they produce Spamweasel, a great freeware program that filters your email for unwanted junk

 www.lavasoftUSA.com - produces Ad-Aware, a freeware program that screens for unwanted “spyware” placed by websites.  

www.e-mps.com - hate spam, junk mail and junk calls? Register with the Direct Marketing Association and get off the call lists. It really works!

www.alltheweb.com a great all in one search engine

www.dogpile.com - another great all in one search engine that searches up to 20+ sites

www.positionagent.com - find out where your site ranks with top search engines

www.rootsweb.com - a free genealogy site to explore and learn about your ancestors

www.sidestep.com - you can get an Internet Explorer add in that allows you to search all the major travel consolidators for cheap rates on airfare, hotels and rental cars

www.switchboard.com -  combines all the phonebook data that is fit to print - nationwide

www.ultimatezip.com  - a handy little utility that zips files in up to 16 different formats. free download  

www.tucows.com

www.cdnet.com