- ElderWeb has grown to include over 6,000 reviewed links to long term care information, as well as an expanding library of articles and reports, news and events.
- Gerontology Policy Resource List used by Carolyn Shrewsbury's classes has a local Minnesota focus.
- The National Aging Information Center, "operated by the U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA), is a central source for a wide variety of program- and policy-related materials and demographic and other statistical data on the health, economic, and social status of older Americans.
- Older Americans 2006: Key Indicators of Well-Being was published by the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics.
- Aging and Culture – a webpage by the Anthropology Dept. at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Electronic Listserves
- Current Awareness in Aging Research Report is a weekly email report produced by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that helps researchers keep up to date with the latest developments in the field. They have an archive of back issues.
- The Ecnaging Listserv is a quick, inexpensive way to convey to a growing audience, currently about 390 subscribers, notices of job openings, upcoming workshops, data availability, solicitations for papers, or research inquiries. To subscribe, send a message to listserv@listserv.syr.edu that says "sub ecnaging [your_name]".
- Internet Scout Project Surf smarter, not longer. Let the Internet Scout Project show you the way to the best resources on the Internet--then you can choose what's best for you. Librarians and educators do the filtering for you, reading hundreds of announcements each week looking for the online resources most valuable to the education community.
Government
Minnesota-Specific Sites
Organizations and Associations
Caregiver Support
Computer Training for Older Adults
Consumer Protection
Disease and Illness
Elder Law
Senior Law is a website where senior citizens, their families, attorneys, social workers, and financial planners can access information about elder law, Medicare, Medicaid, estate planning, trusts and the rights of the elderly and disabled.
Exercise, Fitness and Nutrition
Folklore
Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren
- Informal and Formal Kinship Care. This report presents the results of work pursued by analysts at two separate research institutions in a collaboration designed to describe the population of American children living in kinship care arrangements.
Health
- Alcohol and Aging This alcohol alert reviews recent research on the extent of alcohol consumption and associated problems among the elderly.
- The Alzheimer Pagesponsored by the Washington University Alzheimer's Research Center.
- Chronic and Disabling Conditions data profiles published during the year 2000 by the National Academy on an Aging Society. The series includes: Chronic Conditions, Hearing Loss, Heart Disease, At Risk and Arthritis.
- Health Finder well organized, consumer-focused health and nutrition information.
- Healthtouch - Find information about more than 10,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications..
- The Nun Study home page. The nun study is a longitudinal study of aging and Alzheimer's disease funded by the National Institute on Aging. Participants were members of the School Sisters of Norte Dame religious congregation with the Mankato congregation involved in this study.
- Women's Health and Aging Study: Health and Social Characteristics of Older Women with Disability, funded by the NIA.
Housing, Living Arrangements
AARP Research – Independent Living "Information, research results and policy insights about: housing options, home modification, reverse mortgages, public and personal transportation services, older driver issues and developments, assistive devices for life's challenges, and adult children's perceptions of parents' needs."
Long-Term Care
Pensions
Policy Advocacy and Information
Policy Choices Posed by the Aging of America, The Urban Institute. A discussion briefing prepared for the Urban Institute Board of Trustees meeting, May 20, 1998. Other topics on the Urban Institute website include Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid and other entitlement programs, health care financing and access, and "The New Federalism," the devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states.
Psychology
APA Division 20, Adult Development and Aging, American Psychological Association's Division 20. This division is dedicated to studying the psychology of adult development and aging.
Retirement
Statistics and Data for Aging Research
- American Demographics magazine.
- A Profile of Older Americans: 2002 Key Facts on the older population, including basic demographic statistics, future growth, marital status, living arrangements, racial/ethnic composition, geographic distribution, housing, employment and health care.
- Center for Demography and Economics of Aging can be found at the Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University.
- Center on Economics and Demography of Aging University of California, Berkeley
- Current Awareness in Aging Report (CAAR) is a weekly email report produced by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that helps researchers keep up to date with the latest developments in the field.
- Data Base News in Aging, U.S. Census Bureau, October 1999. DBNA highlights the contents of government-sponsored surveys and products (many funded by NIA) containing statistical information about the older population.
- Federal Administration on Aging. Contains information for caregivers, and the eldercare locator.
- Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Nationally representative longitudinal survey. Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) survey is also found here.
- Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA). The University of Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging is one of eleven centers on aging sponsored by the National Institute on Aging.
- National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging. Funded by the National Institute on Aging, located at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan. NACDA's mission is to advance research on aging by helping researchers to profit from the under-exploited potential of a broad range of datasets. NACDA acquires and preserves data relevant to gerontological research, processing as needed to promote effective research use, disseminates them to researchers, and facilitates their use. By preserving and making available the U.S.'s largest library of electronic data on aging, NACDA offers opportunities for analysis on major issues of scientific and policy relevance.
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- National Center for Health Statistics includes Longitudinal Study of aging.
- The National Council on the Aging. Also check out NCOA's BenefitsCheckUp site. It can find government programs you didn't know you were eligible for.
- The National Elder Abuse Incidence Study: Final Report is the first ever National Elder Abuse Incidence Study.
- The Odum Institute Library is the exclusive national repository for Louis Harris public opinion data.
- Older Workers, Retirement and Pensions, A Comparative International Chartbook by Kevin Kinsella and Yvonne J. Gist, International Programs Centre, U.S. Census Bureau. Similar reports about aging in other countries are available at The International Programs Center
- Population Center Johns Hopkins University
- Profile of Older Persons: 2002 Electronic version of the popular brochure with the latest key statistics on older Americans in 12 key subject areas. It includes both narrative and statistical charts – the 2001 edition is only available online.
- RAND Center for the Study of Aging, one of the nation's leading institutions dedicated to behavioral research on the elderly population.
- The Research Center at the AARP Webplace provides users with reference information, research results, and policy insights on a variety of topics about older adults and aging. The Research Digest section offers brief reports of recent findings and news about projects in progress.
- Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
- Seniors.gov . Excellent, unbiased links to government sources of information.
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