• - Medical Alert Jewelry
• 1Up Health - Medical resource provides comprehensive and authorative information and news on diseases, symptoms, tests, surgery, injuries, nutrition, medications, and poisons. Focuses on family and community health.
• AARP - Information for Caregivers
• About Alzheimer's Disease
• Acne Resource Center - hundreds of articles on acne, including research on acne, an in-depth look at the different kinds of acne and how to cope with the emotional effects of acne
• AgeNet Eldercare Network - home solutions for better aging
• Aging and Mental Health - Newsletter
• Aging Solutions - articles, comprehensive checklists and links to key resources ... designed to make it easier for people caring for an aging parent or elderly spouse to quickly find the information they need ... and to avoid missing things that are important in the care for their loved one
• AIDS Action
• AIDS/HIV Doctor's Guide to Information and Resources
• AllRefer.com - Medical resource provides reliable and comprehensive information and news on diseases, symptoms, tests, surgeries, injuries, nutrition, medications, and poisons. Focuses on family and community health, and provides an extensive collection of medical pictures and images
• Alternative Cancer Therapies FAQs
• Alzheimer and Related Diseases - Book list
• Alzheimer Association - resources and information
• Alzheimer's Disease - tips for caregivers
• Alzheimer's Foundation of America - To provide optimal care and services to individuals confronting dementia, and to their caregivers and families—through member organizations dedicated to improving quality of life
• Alzheimer's Resources - from phenomenalwomen.com
• Alzheimer's Solutions - information source for caregivers: Causes, Diagnosis, Stages, Treatments, and Caregiving Tips. The site contains a complete listing of memory disorder centers, by city and state for all 50 states,and for Canada by provinces
• The Alzheimer's Store - unique products and information for those caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease
• American Lung Association
• American Pain Foundation
• American Pain Society - advancing research, education, treatment and professional practice
• American Society for Action on Pain - Schaffer Library of Drug Policy
• AssistedLiving.com - referrals
• Assisted Living Info - referrals & information
• Association for the Cure of Cancer of the Prostrate
• Ayurveda and herbal medicine - Ayurvedic herbal medicine for maintaining lipids in blood, cardiovascular disease remedies, regulating heart functions, reshaping heart to original size. Learn about herbal and ayurvedic medicines with other medical conditions
• Bereavement Hospitality Services - PRE-PLAN your bereavement travel needs, ground transportation needs and hotel
• Boomers International - World Wide Community for the Baby Boom Generation - Caring for Parents/Caregivers
• Braille Institute - Resources for the blind and visually impaired.
• Brain Injury Information - Legal and medical resources
• Brain Injury Links
• ByMySide.com - taking charge of cancer treatment, guide to starting chemotherapy, talk one on one to survivors of your kind of cancer
• cancerhelper.com - information and resources
• Cancer Links
• Candida and Yeast Infection Blog - A information blog about candida cleansing, anti-fungals, and alternative medicine
• Care for the Caregiver - created for wives, families and care-givers of Veterans to share our feelings, our concerns, our ideas, our care-giving secrets and support each other
• Caregiver Network - a resource centre created to help caregivers of the elderly and ill (Canada)
• Caregiver.com - eZine
• Caregiver's Community - where caregivers come for info & fun! articles, tools, links
• Caregiver's Directory - resources to make a decision, find outside help, utilize government and community support
• The Caregiver's Handbook
• Caregiving Online: Wellness for Care givers of an aging relative, friend or neighbor - Online support section and links for Caregivers
• CareScout - Search and compare nursing homes, assisted living facilities, home health and hospice agencies. Obtain discounts on eldercare. Talk to an eldercare expert for advice
• Care Tender - a newsletter for caregivers
• CaringToday.com - Practical Advice for the Family Caregiver
• Center for Healthy Aging - Services and resources (Santa Monica, CA)
• Changing the Face of Dying - helping ordinary people deal with the stresses and personal needs of the terminally ill
• Chronic Pain, CFS, FMS and Other Medical Resources
• Colon Cancer Alliance
• Corporate Angel Network - cancer patients fly free for treatment
• Cyber Shrink - free information on psychotherapy, counseling and ways to lead a life that can be useful and satisfying
• Dealing Spiritually with Pain - article by Philip Goldberg
• Dealing with Dementia - Help for Relatives, Friends and Caregivers
• Dementia Forum
• Direct Laboratory Services - A simple blood test could save your life. We provide laboratory screening tests for individuals who desire to take charge of their own health and to assist in the prevention or early detection of disease. Our goal is to provide low cost, high quality screening services directly and confidentially to you, the consumer
• Directory of Geriatric Care Managers
• DirectoryHealthcare.com - Provides the useful service in finding and information technologies, medical, safety, mental health, fitness, nutrition, weight loss and general health and more
• Diverticulitis - Personal experiences of diverticulitis plus information on symptoms and treatment
• Eldercare from the Third Age
• ElderCARENetwork - Geriatric care specialists
• Eldercare On-line
• Eldercare Online Medical Research Assistant - Guide to medical information
• Eldercare Web - Center for Eldercare
• ElderHope Support - for the elderly and their caregivers
• Elder Living Source - A comprehensive, easy-to-use directory of nursing homes, assisted and independent living facilities, Alzheimer’s care facilities and continuing care retirement communities. Includes information on selecting, evaluating and paying for a long-term residential care solution for your loved one.
• Empowering Caregivers - Message Boards, Chat, Resources, Newsletter
• Encouraging Quotes and Stories
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• Family Caregiver Alliance - support for families caring for loved ones with chronic disabling health conditions
• Family friendly fun ideas and family health resources enhance the quality of family life for families with disabilities
• Fibromyalgia Support - Everything you need to know to live the life you want to live. A resource for those wanting to learn about fibromyalgia or learn how to fight the disease. Contains over eighty articles on fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome
• Generations United - Intergenerational organizations
• Geriatric Care Management
• Gilda's Club - support for people with cancer and their families
• GoodEndings.net - caring for the dying resident
• Growth House - Resources for life-threatening illness and end of life issues
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• Have-A-Heart Depression Page - A rest stop from depression and thoughts of suicide
• Head Injury Collection - library books
• Health6.com - comprehensive health directory
• Healthfinder - US Governemnt site with links to health and medical news.
• Healthopedia.com - a medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics, 70 focussed health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and medications.
• Health Touch - Search engine
• Healthywebdirectory.com - Extensive website of large health-related link indexes
  
• HealthWorld Online - Home of self-managed care, healthy living, alternative therapies, BodyMindSpirit health
• Heart Attack Symptoms - informative articles on heartcare including heartcare resource and tips.
• Help for Caregivers - Alzheimer's Disease International
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• Home Care Do's and Don'ts by Steven Schwartzman, MSW
• Home Care Guide for Advanced Cancer from the American College of Physicians for family, friends and hospice workers
• IBS Treatment Guide - Find out the information on IBS, causes of IBS, IBS symptoms, IBS diagnosis, IBS diet, Irritable bowel syndrome treatment methods, natural IBS cures, IBS coping tips and IBS help.
  
• Innovations in End-of-Life Care -   an international journal and online forum of leaders in end-of-life care
• International Forgiveness Institute - defining forgiveness
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome Treatments - information on the range of treatments available for IBS, from drugs to alternative therapies
• Leeza's Place - An intimate and safe setting where caregivers and those recently diagnosed with any memory disorder can gather to prepare themselves for the challenging journey ahead
• The Leukemia-Lymphoma Society
• LifeSharers - non-profit voluntary network of organ and tissue donors
• Listening to Your Symptoms - how to get in touch with your own inner advisor
• Living in a Care Facility - by Peter Silin, MSW, RSW - what to expect
• LocateADoc.com - Search medical specialists by state
• Locks of Love - a non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children across the U.S. under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss-- donate your hair
• Long Term Care Insurance - Buyers Advocate Outreach
• Long Term Care Links - comprehensive source of information
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• Marianne Wiliamson - Sustenance for the Soul
• Mayo Clinic Health Oasis - Searchable database on health
• MedBroadcast - health information
• MedExplorer - health and medical information
• Medicare and Medicaid Updates
• Medicare and Medi-Gap Insurance
• Medifecta Healthcare Training - Video training program for caregivers
• MedWorld - Search engine for health and medicine resources
• The Melanoma Education Foundation is a non-profit organization devoted to saving lives from melanoma, a common skin cancer that is often deadly unless detected early before there are any symptoms. The Foundation trains high school and middle school health educators and
  provides them with student materials and lesson plans, provides complete information about early self-detection and prevention of melanoma in a user-friendly web site, and conducts talks and facial skin analyzer screenings for area organizations and businesses.

• National Breast Cancer Coalition
• National Cancer Institute
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - reserach, clinical trials, health information
• National Coalition for Cancer Surviorship
• National Family Caregiver Support Program - resources
• National Family Caregivers Association - Services, products and a newsletter for Care givers.
• National Ovarian Cancer Coalition
• NeuroTrauma Register - brain and spinal cord injury resources
• New Lifestyles - guide for Senion Living
• Nursing Home Guide - free, objective and easy-to-use nursing home resource for prospective residents, caregivers and healthcare professionals
• Nursing Homes - Care Homes Guide Ltd. provides an in-depth search facility for all types of nursing, residential, and retirement homes in the UK
• Older Jokes for Older Folks
• OncoLink - cancer information
• Pain and Policy Studies Group - University of Wisconsin, focuses on identifying and addressing barriers to use of opiod analgesics for pain control
• A Patient Guide to Surgery - Pre-Op
• Plain Sense - everyday health questions
• Plastic Surgery Information Center
• Prostrate Cancer Support Groups
• Rational Recovery - There is enough information at this website for you to totally recover from any addiction, e.g., alcohol, crank, crack, heroin, opiates, sex and porn addiction, overeating, computer addiction, gambling, or other personal behavior that goes against your own better judgment
• Real Age - what is yours? Take the test!
• Sisters Network, Inc. - A National African-American Breast Cancer Survivors' Organization
• The Skin Cancer Foundation
• Skin Cancer Screening Map - public locations provided by the American Academy of Dermatology
• Sleep Apnea - Sleep Disorders Guide - A comprehensive information guide about sleep disorders.
  Descriptions, symptoms, causes, treatments of various sleep disorders like
  sleep apnea, insomnia, snoring, restless legs and narcolepsy
• The Social Security and Disability Resource Center News
• Solutions for Better Aging - resources in health, drugs, insurance, legal, financial, housing, caregiving
• Spirtuality & Alternative Healing - Death Dying & Terminal Illness
• Stretch Your Eldercare Dollars - article in Eldercare Online by Phyllis Staff
• Strong Body for a Stronger Memory by Paul Takayanagi
• Tab-tote one-month pill dispensers - Load once a month in minutes...dispense daily in seconds. Large capacity daily compartments, spill-proof for travel
• Tips for Alzheimer's Caregivers - Mary Clark, PhD
• Today's Caregiver Magazine
• The Tomorrow Fund - Helping children with cancer
• Undying Love - a son's tribute to his mother who died of Alzheimer's
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• Well-Spouse Foundation - For Spousal Caregivers
• Worldwide Sharing - Connect with other Care givers by ICQ and IRC for support
• Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization
• A Year to Remember with My Mother and Alzheimer's Disease

Hospice

• American Hospice Foundation - articles, information, resources
• California State Hospice Association
• Central Oregon Home Health and Hospice - offers a seamless transition from home health care to hospice care
• Children's Hospice International -
• Compassion in Action - Dannion Brinkley's Twilight Brigade
• The Connecticut Hospice
• Find a Hospice near you - MSN Yellow Pages
• Home Care Online - National Association for Home Care's virtual headquarters representing the interests of the home care and hospice community
• Hospice and Palliative Care Organization - end of life planning and care, Advanced Health Care and Living Will forms (by state)
• Hospice Foundation of America - information and resources
• Hospice Home Page
• Hospice Net
• The Hospice of Florida Suncoast
• Hospice Patients Alliance
• Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco - Information on training and services. Booklist. Links to Aids, Alzheimer's, Death and Dying resources.

Death & Dying

 

• AARP - Grief and Loss
• Afterhours Inspirational Stories - death and dying
• Before I Die - PBS program
• BridgetoDreams.org - Hospice Care & Guided Meditation/Spiritual Growth & Healing - resources for transition
• Center to Improve Care of the Dying - Research, public advocacy and education
• Compassion and Choices - working for the freedom to choose a dignified death and for individual control concerning death
• Conscious Dying - learn how to die consciously into the Clear Light
• Dancing in the Twilight - St. Pete Times series of articles chronicling death of woman from ovarian cancer
• Death: A Salon Special Issue - Internet magazine explores death from different points of view
• The Death & Dying Channel - palliative care, pain management
• DeathEducation - where we learn to appreciate life
• Dying Well - Resources for people facing life-limiting illness, their families, and their professional caregivers by a palliative care physician
• The End of Life: Exploring Death in America - National Public Radio transcripts
• The Final Journey - a collection of stories about death and dying
• Last Acts - Foundation to improve end of life care
• Make a Will Quiz
• Music Thanatology - what it is, samples
• Natural Dying - Article from IN CONTEXT, #31 of the Context Institute.
• Not Dead Yet - people with disabilities oppose legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia
• PBS Web Site - On Our Own Terms with Bill Moyers
• Project on Death in America - Initiatives in research, scholarships, the humanities and the arts
• Raindrop - Death education for children of all ages.
• Secret of Death
• Sociology of Death and Dying
• Twilight Brigade - Dannion Brinkley's Compassion in Action
• Ultimate Orgasm of Life: Death by Mr. Yogi
• When Death is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context - New York State Task Force on Life and the Law
• When a Loved One is Dying - Finding Peace in Death by Eleanor Hamilton.
• WidowNet - Grief and bereavement resources.

Grief and Healing

• AARP - Coping with Grief and Loss
• The Alcove - Center for Grieving Children and Their Families
• Beyond Indigo - changing the way you feel about grief and loss - near death experiences
• Children's Grief and Loss Issues and how we can help them
• CompassionateFriends.org - Grief support after the death of a child
• Coping after a Miscarriage - The emotional recovery from a miscarriage is not easy. Few people may even know about your loss, and others may brush it aside, even your partner. You are not alone, and you may be surprised to see in these topics that what you are feeling is normal and expected
• Death, Grief and Mourning Resources - about.com links
• Finding Our Way - Living with Dying in America
• GriefNet - Resources and support
• The Grief Recovery Network
• Grief Recovery Online
• GriefShare - support groups
• Healing Your Grief with Debbi Dickinson
• Heaven's Children - support and remembrance for parents who have lost a child
• Helping Families Cope with Death and Dying - nursing information
• Helping Teenagers Cope with Grief
• KidsPeace - National Center for Kids Overcoming Crisis
• The Kid's Place - helping children cope with loss
• Near Death Experience - there is life after life
• Online Counseling Guides - Death & Grief
• Rainbows - an international, not-for-profit educational organization that fosters emotional healing among children grieving a loss from a life-altering crisis - peer support group
• The Shiva Foundation - grief, bereavement resources
• The Sibling Connection
• Wings of Light - Support for people involved in airline accidents

Pet Loss

• Assn. for Pet Loss and Bereavement
• Chance's Spot - pet loss and support resources
• Cornell U. Pet Loss Support Hotline - staffed by volunteer veterinary students
• Grief and Pet Loss
• House Rabbit Society - support and grief
• In Memory of Pets
• Paws 2 Heaven - pet loss support
• Pet Loss Grief Support
• Pet Loss Support Page
• Pet Urns - Angel Ashes offers several styles of pet urns including traditional wood urns, angel figurines, and urns designed to look like books

 

Links for Seniors

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• AARP Guide to Internet Resources Related to Aging
• Age Venture News Service - the voice of Aging America (pain management, end of life, right to die) AgeNet - consumer information for seniors and caregivers
• Eldercare Web - Center for Eldercare
• ElderNet - senior community
• Empire Home Care Resources -  for seniors and caregivers
• FitnessDay.com - health promotion events at more than 1,500 local organizations
• Fraud Against the Elderly
• Friendly4Seniors - Search engine for senior sites
• Gay and Lesbian Association of Retiring Persons
• Little Brothers - volunteer program matching young people with the elderly 
• Mature Resources - eZine for positive aging
• National Center on Women & Aging - Meeting the Challenges Confronting Women as They Age
• NationalCouncil on the Aging
• National Senior Citizens Law Center - Legal issues that affect the security and welfare of older persons on limited income
• New Lifestyles - guide for senior living
• Pride Senior Network - mission is to encourage and promote services which foster maximum health, well being, and quality of life for the aging lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community through advocacy and education and research
• Second Wind Dreams - mission is to fulfill the dreams of those living in eldercare communities, thereby enhancing their quality of life and improving the perception of aging
• The Senior Center - What would you like to do today?
• SeniorNews.com - Chat rooms, Senior News Network, travel packages, wellness programs, online shopping
• Senior Corps - get involved!
• SeniorLaw - Elderlaw, Medicare, Medicaid, estate planning, trusts and the rights of the elderly and disabled
• Senior Net - Host to book clubs and learning centers, medication Q&A, Forum on "Successful Aging"
• Senior Resources - For housing and lifestyle choices and how to plan and pay for them
• SeniorSites - web source of non-profit housing and services for seniors
• Senior Spectrum - life-enhancing solutions for adults
• SeniorsCorner
• Seniors-site.com - Information for people over 50
• The Social Security and Disability Resource Center News
• Tai Chi for Seniors - easy to learn instrucions on videotape or DVD
• ThirdAge - boomers

Final Arrangements

• AARP - how to shop for funeral goods and services
• Caring for Someone with AIDS - final arrangements
• Cremation - MasterTouch Cremation Learning Center looks at cremation in-depth and features an array of resources for your own investigation
• Cremation Internet Society - Information and resources
• Direct Casket - order online
• Federal Trade Commission - outlines consumer protection laws related to funeral goods
• Final Arrangements Network - Final arrangements preplanning information, help, advice and tutorials for a funeral, burial or cremation, also cemetery lots for sale and guidance on handling grief with friends
• Final Passges - dedicated to a compassionate and dignified alternative to current funeral practices
• Funeral Consumers Alliance - non-profit organization provides information about funeral products and services
• Funeral Net - lists more than 21,000 funeral homes, special services for veterans
• Last Acts - a national coalition to improve care and caring at the end of life
• Last Wishes & Final Arrangements - all the paperwork and legal things needed in advance and arrangements after death
• My Final Planner - a workbook designed for the sole purpose of recording your life history in an organized manner to aid you in pre-planning your own funeral and finalizing your affairs
• National Casket Retailers Assn. - lists retailers and other funeral information

Suicide

 

 

• American Association of Suicidology - dedicated to the understanding and prevention of suicide
• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention - supporting research and education
• Growth House - Suicide - resources
• Living with Suicide - shared experiences and voices of loss
• The Suicide Paradigm - a site for those who have experienced suicide loss and those who want to know more about suicide and its aftermath
• Suicide... read this first
• Suicide Seemed Like a Good Option - article by Jeannette Inman, R.N., from womentodaymagazine.com
• What to Do When a Friend is Depressed - a guide for teenagers
• Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program - for teens and parents

Memorials

• Everlife Memorials - making a difficult purchase a little easier... Headstones, Urns, Grave Markers, Gravestones, Cremation Urns, Cremation Jewelry & Flag Cases and more. I ordered a piece of memorial jewelry called a cremation pendant and put some of my mother's ashes in it as a symbol of her always being with me. I am happy with the service and the product I got from this web site. --dg
• HighSierraPhotoArt.com - Custom photographic memories of your loved one. This is my contribution to helping others stay in touch with their loved ones on the other side. --dg
• In Eternia - our cremation urns are inspirational works of art that will be displayed and enjoyed for generations
• Life Recorded Online Tributes & Memorials - create an online memorial for your loved one
• Little Angels Online Store - memory items for pregnancy & infant loss... keepsake boxes, memory bracelets, artwork, garden assessories, special teddy bears, books, music, figurines, and many other items... information, links, and support
• Prestige Memorials - Your Premier Online Source for all your Funeral & Memorial needs. Offering Urns, Headstones, Urns, Cremation Jewelry, Flag Cases and other memorial products. We have a large Information Center available about funeral, cemetery and the death care industry
• Remembered Forever - share memories, photos, videos and more, creating an everlasting tribute to those who have passed away
• Sacred Journey Vessels - high-quality hand-painted cremation urns. These cremation urns come in two sizes of spun bronze, copper, or a combination of both metals and hand-painted in one-of-a-kind designs. Durable enamels are applied with a finish that is UV-resistant to ensure a quality product. My sister and I picked out a beautiful design that fit our mother's personality. Sharon is a caring soul who has a wonderful gift. We were pleased with the transaction and her beautiful work of art dedicated to our mother who died January 11, 2006. --dg
• A Sacred Memory - beautiful keepsakes, memory folios capturing milestone events in peoples lives, much more than a scrapbook, journal or photo album. Whether it be a birthday, anniversary, graduation, wedding, baby event, retirement or transition, this is a gift one doesn't toss after a few years.
• Unique Cremation Urns - The world's most unique and beautiful cremation urns and cremation jewelry. Biodegradable urns too!

• Burial at Sea
• Burial Customs and Beliefs
• The Internet Cremation Society - Information and resources
• The Natural Death Care Project - Home funerals
• Understanding Cremation
  - MasterTouch Cremation Learning Center looks at cremation in-depth and features an array of resources for your own investigation

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