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Aging and Gerontology - JournalsBooks - Aging and Gerontology, Abstracts, Bibliography, Syllabus, Journals, Sociology Books 2011, Sociologyindex, The Study of Aging and Gerontology The Journal of Aging Studies features scholarly papers offering new interpretations that challenge existing theory and empirical work. Articles need not deal with the field of aging as a whole, but with any defensibly relevant topic pertinent to the aging experience and related to the broad concerns and subject matter of the social and behavior sciences, and the humanities. - web.soc.ufl.edu/faculty/journage.htm The International Journal of Aging and Human Development - baywood.com/authorpage/ia/ag.html Journal of Aging and Health - Editor - Kyriakos S. Markides University of Texas, Galveston, USA - ...deals with social and behavioural factors relating to ageing and health, emphasizing health and quality of life. - sagepub.co.uk/frame.html?http://www.sagepub.co.uk/ Ageing & Society - Edited by Tony Warnes,
University of Sheffield, UK Aging is a universal phenomenon that adversely affects human beings. Gerontology is the branch of science that deals with old age, the ageing process, and the problems faced by old people in general and in society. AARP Resource Center, free service for researching recent articles: research.aarp.org/ageline/ Administration on Aging (AoA)-federal government agency that provides information on state and federal sites and resources: .aoa.dhhs.gov/agingsites/default.htm Ageline - columbia.edu/
Ageline: research.aarp.org/ageline/ Aging and Society of the German Sociological Association. sektion-altern.de/English/eindex.htm Alliance for Aging Research-advocacy organization at: .agingresearch.org Alzheimer’s Association: .alz.org/ Alzheimer’s Disease Education & Referral Center: .alzheimers.org/ American Assocation of Retired Persons (AARP) - aarp.org/ - AARP is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to addressing the needs and interests of persons 50 and older. research.aarp.org/ageline American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry - .aagpgpa.org American Federation of Aging Research (AFAR): .afar.org/ American Geriatrics Society (AGS): .americangeriatrics.org/ American Society on Aging: .asaging.org/ Andrus Foundation-Part of AARP, this site provides information on research at: andrus.org/index.shtml Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. .aghe.org Association of Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGE-SW)-organization of social workers teaching gerontology: .agesocialwork.org Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services: cms.hhs.gov/ Children of Aging ParentS (CAPS): .caps4caregivers.org/ Generations United, generationsunited.org/ Geriatric Social Work Practicum Development Program coordinated by the New York Academy of Medicine and funded by the John A.Hartford Foundation: .nyam.org/srvpfa/gsw/ Gerontological Society of America - geron.org/ - The Gerontological Society of America is a non-profit professional organization with more than 5000 members in the field of aging. Geropsychology Central - .premier.net/~gero/contents.html GoldenAge.Net - elo.mediasrv.swt.edu/goldenage/script.htm Institute of Gerontology (Wayne State University) - iog.wayne.edu/ - The Wayne State University Institute of Gerontology (IOG) strives to contribute to the enhanced quality of life for older people in Metropolitan Detroit, the State of Michigan and across the nation. The mission of the IOG is to increase knowledge about aging, improve the practice of gerontology, and influence public policy. Intergenerational Innovations, Seattle. Links young and old in volunteer activities. .intergenerate.org/. 206-525-8181 Intergenerational Program, Hunter College/Brookdale Center on Aging. Refer to them for their Grandparent Caregiver Law Center. Brookdale Foundation focuses on program and research efforts related to grandparents as caregivers. .brookdale.org/gpc/index.html. Kinship Foster Care, Grandparent Caregivers: A National Guide (Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and the Brookdale Center of Aging) - .prisonactivist.org/lspc/ngcm/foster.html/ MEL Social: Aging - Aging Administration on Aging and the Aging Network, federal government site. http://mel.lib.mi.us/social/SOC-aging.html National Academy on an Aging Society (policy arm of GSA): www.agingsociety.org National Center for Health Statistics-Part of CDC, this site provides information on health statistics for all ages at: .cdc.gov/nchs/ National Center on Women and Aging. The mission of the National Center on Women and Aging is to focus national attention on the special concerns of women as they age, to develop solutions and strategies for dealing with these concerns, and to reach out to women and organizations across the country, promoting the changes necessary to improve older women's lives. .heller.brandeis.edu/national/mission.html National Council on Aging (NCOA): .ncoa.org/ National Council on Aging Benefits Website - .benfitscheckup.org National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) - .nfcacares.org National Institute of Aging : Information on the following programs: Biology of Aging, Behavioral and Social Research, Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of Aging, and Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology Program. http://www.nia.nih.gov/research/ Project on Death in America: Transforming the Culture of Dying (Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations) - soros.org/death/ Public Policy and Aging Report: www.agingsociety.org Reports from WHO-Kobe Center, a research center devoted to developing health and welfare systems for an ageing population: .who.or.jp/ageing/index.html Reports from World Health Organization (WHO) on ageing and the life course: .who.int/hpr/ageing/ Resources in Social Gerontology - .trinity.edu/~mkearl/geron.html SAGE-SW- An arm of CSWE, this program, entitled Strengthening Aging and Gerontology Education in Social Work provides information on curriculum resources and models, research and reports and contains an annotated bibliography: .cswe.org/sage-sw The Gerontological Society of America was established in 1945 to promote the scientific study of aging, to encourage exchanges among researchers and practitioners from various disciplines related to gerontology, and to foster the use of gerontological research in forming public policy. http://www.geron.org/ . Publishes Journals of Gerontology: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences and Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. The society also publishes The Public Policy and Aging Report. The Gerontological Society of America's online job service, AgeWork Career Center, .agework.com/ The Resource Directory for Older People - aoa.gov/directory/default.htm - A cooperative effort of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Administration on Aging (AoA), the Resource Directory for Older People is intended to serve a wide audience including older people and their families, health and legal professionals, social service providers, librarians, researchers, and others with an interest in the field of aging. The directory contains names, addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers of organizations which provide information and other resources on matters relating to the needs of older persons. U.S. Government Census Data - .census.gov/socdemo/www/agebrief.html United Nations Action Plan for a World Aging Rapidly: .un.org/ageing/ World Health on Aging report on active aging: .who.int/hpr/Ageing/Active AgeingPolicyFrame.pdf Institutions having specific websites: Calvin College:
calvin.edu/academic/social_work/Gerorich/index.htm
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