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Gerontology and Aging: Transforming Care

Governmental Resources

Admin. on Aging Fact Sheets
Agency on Aging
Alliance for Aging Research
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Health Care Financing Admin. (HCFA;medicare information)
Medicare
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Orange County, NC Homepage for Orange County
Report to Congress on Nursing Home Staffing

Medical Resources

Annals of Long Term Care, Clinical Care, and Aging
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Duke Medical Center
Long Term Care Network for Care in Aging
Mayo Clinic, Topics in Geriatrics
Merck Manual of Geriatrics

Educational Resources

AgeLine
The AGS Foundation for Health in Aging
Beers criteria

Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center

Nursingcenter.com
Medscape
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Organizations

AgeSource Worldwide (AARP)
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
American Geriatrics Society
American Medical Director's Association
American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
American Society on Aging
Association for Gerontology in Higher Education
Gerontological Society of America
Hartford Foundation
Health and Age, Novartis Foundation for Gerontology
National Association Directors of Nursing Administration in Long-Term Care
National Association of Geriatric Nursing Assistants
National Conference of Gerontological Nurse Practitioners

National Gerontological Nurses Association
North Carolina Board of Nursing
North Carolina Institute of Medicine
Society for Urologic Nurses and Associates
Southern Gerontological Society
The Sullivan Commission
Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society

UNC Resources

Certificate in Aging
Institute on Aging
Center for Aging and Health
ICARUS

SON Resources

Biobehavioral Laboratory (BBL)
Lifelong Learning

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"Widespread obesity among boomers, combined with lack of exercise, could lead to an epidemic of diabetes, which dramatically accelerates aging and leads to a host of chronic diseases. The number of obese Americans 55-64 has jumped from 31% (1988-1994) to 39% (1999-2002)." -Health, United States, 2005, issued by the Dept. of Health and Human Services