| The aging of America has led to a booming industry | | | | include Assisted Living; Food and Nutrition; Legal |
| providing for the care of our seniors. It has also led | | | | Issues; Equipment and Personal Health Supplies; |
| to difficulties with Medicare and dire threats of the | | | | Financial Issues; and several others. For each of these |
| collapse of Social Security. What is important | | | | categories the site provides a dozen or more major |
| however is that the medical establishment has | | | | web sites as references. A few are commercial; |
| responded in a variety of ways to support the | | | | more of them, however, appear to be sites put up |
| special needs of people in their final years. | | | | by professional associations in the industry or |
| The omnibus site provided by the Department of | | | | non-profits that give unbiased recommendations on |
| Health and Human Services is This site provides a | | | | resources. |
| thorough selection of choices for locating eldercare | | | | There is a National Long Term Care Ombudsman |
| services in your community. The site is multilingual and | | | | Resource Center (ORC) established and supported |
| provides both online support and phone numbers that | | | | by the Federal Government. This organization is an |
| can be utilized. | | | | excellent starting point for localized resources. You |
| A sponsored site with good information can be found | | | | can click on a map on their web site and select a |
| at It is sponsored by QuietCare, a security warning | | | | state where you'll find listings for such offices as the |
| device for seniors living at home. Nevertheless, the | | | | State and Regional Ombudsmen, Office of Licensure |
| site has a good collection of "how to" articles for | | | | (where you can check on Long Term Care facilities); |
| both seniors and those family members who feel | | | | Medicaid Fraud Control; and so forth. The site is |
| charged with guiding them through the lifestyle | | | | located at: |
| changes leading to eldercare. | | | | Ancillary issues facing our senior population today is |
| An extremely well organized site that provides the | | | | what sort of long term care insurance is best for |
| same guidance and a library of other online resources | | | | them, and the question of whether or not they |
| is at This site takes the caregiver from first steps | | | | should pursue home equity conversion, a "reverse |
| right through facility selection and legal issues. Perhaps | | | | mortgage," to finance their final years. There are |
| the most valuable portion of the site is a list of | | | | increasing numbers of online resources relating to |
| related online sites, broken out by category. Divisions | | | | both these areas. |