Geriatric Medicine List

1 National Institute on Aging

http://www.nia.nih.gov/

NIA site has research programs and health advice which leads a national program of research on the biomedical, social, and behavioral aspects of the aging process, the prevention of age-related diseases and disabilities, and the promotion of a better quality of life for all older Americans.

2 Topics In Geriatrics

http://www.mayo.edu/geriatrics-rst/GeriArtcls.html

Geriatric medical subjects from this Mayo Clinic site include Cardiology, Delirium, Dementia: Diagnosis and Evaluation, Dementia: Management of Behavior Problems, Dementia: Pharmacologic Therapies, Driving, Hormone Replacement Therapy, How to Assess Function in the Older Patient, Medical Care of Nursing Home Residents, Medication use in the Elderly, Pressure Ulcers, Preventive Medicine Issues, Rheumatologic Diseases, Sleep Disorders and Urinary Incontinence.

3 National Center for Health Statistics ( NCHS)

http://www.cdc.gov

This site includes sections on aging related publications, data covering health, mortality and many other areas of interest.

4 NCHS Aging Activities

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/agingact.htm

The database "Trends in Health and Aging" provides up-to-date information on national trends and key variables that depict the health status of older Americans style "Longitudinal Studies of Aging" a family of surveys designed to measure changes in health status, health-related behaviors, health care utilization, and the causes and consequences of these changes within and across two cohorts of elderly Americans.

5 FirstGov for Seniors

http://www.seniors.gov/

Everything that might be of interest to seniors. "Departments" include health, travel, retirement planner, legislation and many others.

6 Ask NOAH

http://www.asknoah.org

Ask about: aging, Alzheimers Disease, vision loss, hearing loss, prostate disease and more at this site that contains information from various consumer sources for anyone interested in physiology of aging and the general care and treatment of older people.

7 National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/nacda

NACDA funded by the National Institute on Aging has publications and information resources which cover many areas of aging and NACDAs mission is to advance research on aging by helping researchers to profit from the under-exploited potential of a broad range of datasets.

8 American Geriatrics Society

http://www.americangeriatrics.org/

Features services, publications, and information for members and nonmembers. Summarizes annual meeting, courses, and conferences.

9 APTA Section on Geriatrics

http://geriatricspt.org/

American Physical Therapy Association devotes resources to its geriatric patients and gives consumer information and referrals.