Alzheimer’s Association Online Community
The Alzheimer’s Association Online Community provides a number of forums for caregivers, persons with memory loss, and health professionals. Users can ask questions of care consultants, share stories, read news, and find out more about medications and treatments.
AARP (American Association of Retired Persons)
AARP's caregiving section provides resources on balancing work with caregiving, legal issues, aging, planning, and long distance caregiving.
Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Online
Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Online, a web- and telephone-based education and support network for caregivers of
individuals with progressive dementia. Participate in on-line caregiver education and support classes and obtain links to Alzheimer's caregiver resources in your local area.
Alzheimer's Disease International
This section of the Alzheimer Disease International web site is dedicated to caregivers. It provides information on how best look to after someone with dementia, offering practical and helpful advice on many daily tasks and challenges faced by caregivers.
Alzheimer's Spoken Here
The mission of this site is to provide educational materials on the importance of early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. Target audiences include health care workers, the general public, and all fellow Alzheimer's speakers.
Alzwell
Caregiver education and support specifically geared for helping dementia caregivers.
American Health
Assistance Foundation's Facts on Alzheimer's Disease
A fact-sheet on
Alzheimer's disease -- its prevalence, cost to families, national economic
impact, research spending, etc. The Foundation also provides small grants to
families through its Alzheimer's Family Relief Program. For more information, go
to: http://www.ahaf.org/afrp/afrp.htm.
Care-givers.com
On-line support for caregivers.
Caring and Connecting
A web site for families, providers, and all interested
in caregiving, that offers online
workshops, online support (consultations for individuals), and online
learning.
Eldercare Online
One of the leading online communities where supportive
peers and professionals help caregivers improve the
quality of life of patients and caregivers. Provides
news, online tools, chat, forums, and more.
Empowering Caregivers
This site provide a wide variety of resources from message boards, chat, an index of caregiver resources, to journal-writing exercises, information on alternative healing, webrings, and more!
Family Caregiver
Alliances
Founded in 1977, Family Caregiver Alliance is a community-based
nonprofit organization addressing the needs of families and friends providing
long-term care at home. The web site has an information clearing house and
interviews with leaders in the fields of caregiving.
Healingwell
This site offers resources and interactive tools for caregivers and patients. It features news, articles, message boards and chat rooms, newsletters, books and reviews, and resource directories on Alzheimer's disease and other diseases and disorders.
"I
Have Alzheimer Disease"
Part of the Alzheimer Society of Canada Web site,
this feature offers information, support and resources
to Canadians in the early stages of Alzheimer Disease
or a related dementia. The section includes an exciting
new resource written by members of early stage support
groups in British Columbia. These groups provide a
supportive environment where people with Alzheimer
Disease and related dementias can talk about their
feelings, how their disease affects them and how they
cope.
National Alliance for
Caregiving
NAC is a non-profit joint venture of the American Society on
Aging, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the National Association of Area
Agencies on Aging. Created in 1996 to support family caregivers of the elderly
and the professionals who serve them. The site's Family Care Resource
Connection provides reviews and ratings of books, videos, websites,
magazines, fact sheets and other resources addressing the range of issues and
questions faced by family caregivers.
National Family Caregivers
Association
National Family Caregivers Association is a grass root
organization created to provide family caregivers with support, information and
practical resources.
TheAlzheimerSpouse.com
The mission of this site is to spread the word to AD spouses everywhere that they are not alone in their conflicting emotions, loneliness, pain, and grief. The site includes blogs, message boards, booklists, and information on how to cope with the impact of AD on marriage and partnership.
The
University of Washington, Alzheimer's Disease Research
Center
Information on health care resources, educational
resources and community support for patients and families.
West of Ireland Alzheimers Foundation
The organisation cares for alzheimers patients in Counties Mayo, Galway, and Roscommon of Ireland.
The group also organise meetings to help carers share a better understanding of the effect of Alzheimer's Disease on the person suffering and on the families caring for them.
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