American Association for Retired Persons (AARP). Health and Wellness.
http://www.aarp.org/health/

AARP website offers you a guideline on how to meet your fitness goals. It offers several tips on eating well, managing stress, staying active and getting lean while you clean.  On this website you can find out how to stay healthy, view an e-mail newsletter, or talk back and see a message board.

Centers for Disease Control.  Health Information for Older Adults
http://www.cdc.gov/aging/health_issues.htm

Provides health information for older adults on topics like health-related behaviors, chronic disease, immunization, medicare and others. Links you to a variety of funded organizations, references, and publications.

Columbia Psychotherapy Associates.  How to Recognize and Treat Depression in the Older Adult.
http://www.columbiapsych.com/depression_older.html

Article by Peter Oppermann, Ph. D: How to Recognize and Treat Depression in the Older Adult.  This article gives you the insight on what Depression is, when do you know you have it, how it efects older people more, and what you can do when you are diagnosed.   

Article intended for health professionals and clients about depression in older adults.

Updated: May 3, 2003

ElderWeb Homepage
http://www.elderweb.com/

Elderweb offers elderly people unlimited information on untapped sources for housing, transportation, medicare prescriptions, upcoming events and etc.  ElderWeb also has an Elder Care Locator: a public service that allows older Americans and their caregivers sources of information on senior services.  

Health and Age
http://www.healthandage.com/

Provides news, articles, disease digests, questions and answers, primer on aging, regarding health and aging, living well and living longer.  Associated page for healthcare professionals also available.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
http://www.hhmi.org/news/buckner2.html

On this site Randy Buckner (investigator at HHMI) gives you an article on Training Improves Age-Related Memory Decline.  You can connect to Grant Announcements, Science Education News, and Search through HHMI.

Information about comparative experiments based on many past studies that have shown a reduction in cognitive abilities with age. A total of 62 subjects were used in the studies. The younger adults were in their 20s, and the older adults were in their 70s and 80s. The older adults were chosen for the study because they were healthy and free of any signs of dementia disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.

National Institutes of Health, Go to “HEALTH”
http://www.governmentguide.com/officials_and_agencies/agencies/u.s./independent/
govsite.adp?bread=*Main*officials_and_agencies.adp?id=16101798*Officials%
20and%20Agencies*agencies.adp?id=16101799*Agencies* u.s..adp?
id=16101800*U.S.*&url= http%3A//www.nih.gov/&CID=16101830

This site provides information about health condition, research studies, drug information, database of health-related toll-free numbers – health organizations around the country, health literature references, and quick links to read about special programs. English/ Spanish.

William & Sylvia Silberstein: Institute for Aging and Dementia
http://aging.med.nyu.edu/

The William and Sylvia Silberstein Aging and Dementia Research Center (ADRC).

This is a comprehensive clinical research facility at the New York University Medical Center .  The Center provides expertise in psychiatry, neurology, geriatric medicine, neuroradiology and neuropathology. The ADRC has contributed many significant findings that help clinicians, research scientists, and elderly patients and their families gain a better understanding of both Alzheimer's disease and the effects of aging. The ADRC and its affiliated research programs have been designated as a center of excellence for Alzheimer’s disease research by the National Institute on Aging. The ADRC is a multidisciplinary research center of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center, supported by federal and private sources, is directed toward the study of normal aging and improved clinical diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

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