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Issue
Date: March 18, 2001
Web sites on health and aging
 Resource
directory from the National Institutes of Health
www.nih.gov/nia/site-index.htm
Referrals
from the Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR)
Center
www.alzheimers.org/ir.html
(or call, toll free, 800-438-4380)
Chronic
illness brochures from the National Academy on an Aging Society
www.agingsociety.org/profiles.htm
Brochures and
referrals from the Arthritis Foundation
www.arthritis.org/StartingPoints
Diabetes
education programs listed by state, from the American Diabetes
Association
www.diabetes.org/education/edustate2.asp
Depression
screening test from New York University's Department of Psychiatry
www.med.nyu.edu/Psych/screens/depres.html
Brochures
on dietary guidelines and managing weight from the American
Heart Association
www.americanheartassociation.com/catalog/
Health_catpage5.html
(or call, toll-free, 800-AHA-USA1)
Heart
and stroke A-Z information guide from the American Heart Association
www.americanheartassociation.com/
Heart_and_Stroke_A_Z_Guide
Guides
to buying medicines online, food safety, more from the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration
www.fda.gov/oc/olderpersons
Resource
directory for older people from the National Institute on Aging
www.nih.gov/nia/health
Booklets
and resources on aging from the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services Administration on Aging
www.aoa.dhhs.gov/aoa/pages/info.html
Web
sites and resource information on senior centers from AgeNet
www.agenet.com/sc_web_sites.html
The
latest news, by category, from the National Council on the
Aging
www.ncoa.org/news/ncoa_news_by_category.htm
Programs
of the National Council on the Aging's Consumer Information
Network
www.ncoa.org/CIN/cin_intro.html
Social
Security benefit calculators from the S.S. Administration
www.agenet.com/ss_benefit_calculators.html
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