Older Adults

• Aging and Disabilities Resource Centers
• First Time Wheelchair Users
• Maintaining Positive Thinking
• Health-Related Resources
• Aging Wheelchair Users
• Link to a Older Adults Discussion

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First Time Wheelchair Users

• AOTA - information about driving for professionals, consumers, and caregivers.
• Helpful Products: Wheelchairs and Scooters - from the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Aging. Other good information resources at this site too!
• HomeMods.org - a resource at the Andrus Gerontology Center devoted to creative housing to allow "aging in place."
• Making the change after a lifetime of walking
• Link to WheelchairNet Resouces on getting educated about wheelchairs.

Maintaining Positive Thinking

• Accomplishments 'n Achievements Archives - poetry, stories, visual arts, etc.
• Ageless Designs - smarter, safer living for seniors.
• Facts About Disability and "Quality of Life" - Carol Gill, April , 1999.
• Independent Living Library - click on "library"; key documents on independent living.
• The Self-Help Sourcebook - for information on finding support organizations related to disability. Do a search at the bottom of the page on the term "disability."
• World Association of People with Disabilities - for people who are alive, involved and effective in their every day lives!

Health-Related Resources

• AARP Webplace - Health and Wellness
• Aging solutions - information, articles, comprehensive checklists and links to key resourcesdesigned to make it easier for people caring for an aging parent or elderly spouse to quickly find the information they need.
• SPRY Foundation - Setting Priorities for Senior Years. Information resources about a wide variety of issues such as: health care choices, managed care, long-term care and Medicare.
• ElderWeb - a research site for both professionals and family members looking for information on eldercare and long term care, and includes links to information on legal, financial, medical, and housing issues, as well as policy, research, and statistics.

Aging Wheelchair Users

• Aging & SCI: Stressed Out? - October 1998, Paraplegia News.
• Aging with a disability: Educating myself - by June lsaacson Kailes, in The UCPA Networker.
• AOTA - information about driving for professionals, consumers, and caregivers.
• Independent Choices - Enhancing Consumer Direction For People With Disabilities - a program sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with direction and technical assistance provided by The National Council on the Aging, Inc.
• Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Aging - go to "Information" for information about bath benches, canes and walkers, telephones, and active leisure.... and lots more.
• Resources from the RRTC on aging with a disability - 1996. Click on "Publications."
• The DRM WebWatcher: Aging with a Disability
• Senior Housing Net - the "Information Center" contains many resources.

Last Updated: 3-2-2006