Web Resources on the Issue of Long Term Care
Research Resources
Age Wave
It became obvious to Age Wave founder, Ken Dychtwald that the aging of the baby boom – combined with increasing longevity and declining fertility were triggering a demographic shift of enormous magnitude: an "Age Wave." This site focuses on the "Age Wave's" potential to create a myriad of social, economic and political crises, as well as an unending stream of new business opportunities.
American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)
AFAR strives to promote healthier aging through biomedical research. Since 1981, the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) has helped scientists begin and further careers in aging research and geriatric medicine.
American Physical Therapy Association: Section on Geriatrics
The Section on Geriatrics supports those therapists, assistants, and students that work with an aging population in roles of advocacy, direct patient care, consultation, supervision, and education. The Section on Geriatrics was formed in 1978 to address the needs of the physical therapy practitioner working with the aging client. The Section represents and serves over 4000 members with a wide array of services and benefits. Their mission is to advocate for older adults and promote the highest quality of life for aging individuals through the physical therapy profession.
Geriatrics and Aging
Provides numerous articles on countless physical conditions related to aging. This website is designed for a professional audience interested in key topics relating to, and current trends within, the fields of geriatric medicine and research.
Heath and Age: Novartis Foundation for Gerontology
This site offers a variety of articles and links all of which relate to health for older persons. Health and Age articles include recent publications in peer-reviewed medical journals, reviews of topical subjects by recognized experts, and personal experiences reported by patients, caregivers and friends. The Health and Age website has extensive lists of links to other sites which share their mission of opening discussions on aging, so that people can benefit directly, and also help others to benefit, from the ongoing progress of research in an area of such major relevance to human well-being.
National Academy on an Aging Society
As a non-partisan public policy institute, the Academy actively conducts research and provides science-based information to the public, the press, policymakers, and the academic community. We encourage you to contact us with your own questions and suggestions, and we guarantee a quick response because we value your input. Let's work together to make aging policies more effective wherever we see the need.
National Institute on Aging
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), one of the 25 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health, leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. In 1974, Congress granted authority to form the National Institute on Aging to provide leadership in aging research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs relevant to aging and older people. Subsequent amendments to this legislation designated the NIA as the primary federal agency on Alzheimer's disease research.
The Alliance for Aging Research
The private, not-for-profit Alliance for Aging Research is the nation's leading citizen advocacy organization for improving the health and independence of Americans as they age. The Alliance was founded in 1986 to promote medical and behavioral research into the aging process. Since then, and as the explosion of the Senior Boom approaches, the Alliance has become the voice for Baby Boomer health by developing, implementing and advocating programs in research, professional and consumer health education and public policy.
The Gerontological Society of America
The Gerontological Society of America is a non-profit professional organization with more than 5000 members in the field of aging. GSA provides researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers with opportunities to understand, advance, integrate, and use basic and applied research on aging to improve the quality of life as one ages.
