Introduction to  Gerontology
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NEW! Recommended Gerontology Journals            
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Access America for Seniors            
www.seniors.gov

Administration on Aging
http://www.aoa.gov/network/99poguidetable.html

Administration on Aging topical fact sheets
http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/factsheets/

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
http://www.ahcpr.gov

Alzheimer's Association
http://www.alz.org

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
http://www.aanp.org

American Associaton of Homes and Services for the Aged            
www.aahsa.org

American Association of Retired Persons
http://www.aarp.org

American College of Health Care Administrators            
www.achca.org

American Geriatrics Society
http://www.americangeriatrics.org

American Health Care Assocaition            
www.ahca.org

American Heart Association
http://www.americanheart.org/statistics

American Holistic Nurses Association
htyp://www.ahna.org

American Nurses Association
http://www.nursingworld.org/gova/federal/legisl

American Society on Aging            
www.asaging.org

Americans for Better Care of the Dying
http://www.abcd-caring.com

Americans with Disabilities Act            
www.dol.gov

Area Agency on Aging           
www.areaagency.org

Assisted Living Foundation of America            
www.alfa.org

Centers for Disease Control, Minority Health
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/about/grants/minpop/hispanic/hispanic.htm

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Office of Elder Affairs
http://www.ma.us/elders

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Public Health
http://www.state.ma/us/dph

Energize.Inc. (volunteer information)
http://www.energizeinc.com

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission            
www.eeoc.gov

Family Caregiver Alliance            
www.caregiver.org

Geriatric Education (College of Medicine, Univ. Florida, 5 geriatric teaching cases)
http://www.med.ufl.edu/medinfo/geri/

Gerontological Society of America
http://www.geron.org

Gerontology and Health Promotion: (subject in ProQuest/Electronic Library Search)
http://www.umi.com/pqdweb

GPO Gate of the University of California (access to government records, e.g., The Federal Register)            
www.gpo.ucop.edu

Health Care Financing Administration (U.S. DHHS)
http://www.hcfa.gov

Hospice Foundation of America            
www.hospicefoundation.org

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations            
www.jcaho.org

Journal of the American Medical Association
http://www.ama-assn.org/jama

Kansas Elder Law Network
http://www.ink.org/public/keln_index.html

Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners
http://mcnpweb.org

Massachusetts Health Promotion Clearinghouse
http://www.maclearinghouse.com

Massachusetts Nurses Association
http://www.massnurses.org

Massachusetts Nurses Association, Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners
http://www.mcnpweb.org

Mental Health and Managed Care
http://www.med.upenn.edu/cnhpsr

Minority Health Care Information
http://raceandhealth.hhs.gov

Multidisciplinary Education in Geriatrics and Aging (School or Dental & Oral Surgery,
Columbia University Health Sciences Division, NY, 12 teaching modules available)
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/dental/Dental Educational Software/Gerontology and Geriatric_

National Adult Day Services Association            
www.ncoa.org/nadsa

National Aging Information Center
http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/NAIC

National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging 
(Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/archive.html

National Association for Home Care            
www.nahc.org

National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

National Council on Aging            
www.ncoa.org

National Family Caregivers Association
http://www.nfcacares.org

National Institute of Digestive, Diabetes, and Kidney Disorders
http://www.niddk.gov

National Senior Citizens Law Center
http://www.nscic.org/

National Institute on Aging
http://www.nih.gov/nia/health/pubpub/pubpub.htm

National Subacute Care Association        
www.nsca.net

NIH, Office of Alternative Medicine
http:/altmed.od.nih/gov/oam/what-is-cam-faq.shtml

Occupational Safety and Health Administration            
www.osha.gov

Population/Demographics
http://www.cencus/gov/population/www/socdemo/age.html

Pew Health Commission, University of California San Francisco)
http://www.futurehealth.edu

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation            
www.rwjf.org

Sigma Theta Tau International
http://www.nursingsociety.org

Social Security Administration            
www.ssa.gov

The Urban Institute            
www.urban.org/health/oldpol.html

Urban Institute (policy briefs, state reports. etc.)
http://newfederalism.urban.org

U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
http://www.ahcpr.gov

University of Iowa, Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center
http://coninfo.nursing.uiowa.edu/gnirc/gnircrbp.htm

University of Massachusetts Lowell, College of Health Professions, Department of Nursing\
http://www.uml.edu

U.S. Centers for Disease Control            
www.cdc.gov

U.S. Department of Labor            
www.dol.gov

World Lecture Hall
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture



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