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We hope the following links are helpful to you. They are categorized according to subject matter and geographic location.
Caregiver and Consumer Resources:
Minnesota
www.minnesotahelp.info Information on community resources throughout the state
www.caregivermn.org Extensive information for family caregivers, including many links with comprehensive descriptions of content
www.carelinkusa.com Comprehensive consumer information - Care Providers of Minnesota
www.eldercarepartners.org Information about care management services offered through a consortium of non profit community based organizations in the Twin Cities. Links to their websites.
www.fairview.org/pps/patprog/comhlth/fallprevention A community education project to assist in preventing falls by senior citizens, the leading cause of injuries - consortium of Dakota County Minnesota organizations
www.mhha.com Comprehensive consumer information - Minnesota Health and Housing Alliance
www.mnaging.org Comprehensive caregiver and consumer resources, including the Senior Linkage Line - Minnesota Board on Aging
www.mnhomecare.org Minnesota Home Care Association
www.minnesota-aaa.org Gateway site to find community based services in each region of Minnesota - Minnesota Area Agencies on Aging.
www.tcaging.org Comprehensive caregiver and consumer resources - Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging
National
www.aarp.org American Association of Retired Persons
www.aoa.dhhs.gov Administration on Aging
www.caregiving.com Caregiving.com
www.careguide.com CareGuide
www.agingtech.org
Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST)
Insurance and Public Benefits Resources:
Minnesota
www.commerce.state.mn.us Free consumer booklets about long term care insurance, Medicare supplemental
insurance and prescription drug programs - Minnesota Commerce Department
www.mnaging.org Helps determine
what public benefits might be available; health insurance counseling
program; wide variety of other information - Minnesota Board on Aging
www.minnesotahelp.info
Information on community resources
throughout the state
National
www.BenefitsCheckUp.org
Helps determine what benefit programs you may be eligible for and how to
apply for them.
www.familiesusa.org Families USA Foundation
www.medicare.gov Medicare information & Nursing Home Compare
www.medicarerights.org Medicare Rights Center
www.ssa.gov Social Security - For
questions about Medicare enrollment, entitlement, premiums and replacement
of lost Medicare card
Nursing Home and Housing Resources:
Minnesota
www.carelinkusa.com Directory of housing facilities serving seniors
throughout Minnesota, by county and type - Care Provider’s of Minnesota
www.careproviders.org On line assessments tools and guides to nursing
home and housing services - Care Providers of Minnesota
www.mhha.com On
line assessment tools and guides to nursing home, housing and community
services -
Minnesota Health and Housing Alliance
www.seniorhousingdirectory.com Directory on housing and related services in the Twin
Cities metropolitan area - Senior Housing, Inc.
National
www.aahsa.org
American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
www.assistedliving.com Solutions
for Better Aging
www.alfa.org Assisted Living Federation
of America
General Health, Medical and Senior Services
Resources:
Minnesota
www.alzmn.org Minnesota/Dakotas
Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association
www.dhs.state.mn.us/infocenter/senior.htm Index to Minnesota Department
of Human Services senior services, including its Ombudsman program
www.mplsheartfoundation.org Information on heart health
www.minnesotahelp.info
Information on community resources
throughout the state
www.mnhospice.org Wealth of
information on hospice care and making end of life decisions - Minnesota
Hospice Organization
www.mnseniors.org The website of
the Metro Senior Federation
www.wilder.org/goodage/index.html Index and past articles in Good Age, a
senior news publication by the Wilder Foundation
www.extension.umn.edu/family/index.html Comprehensive resources on a
variety of family and aging matters - University of Minnesota Extension
Service
www.admin.state.mn.us/assistivetechnology/ Minnesota STAR Program
(System of Technology to Achieve Results), which addresses assistive
technologies for people with disabilities.
National
www.agenet.com
Agenet: Solutions for Better Aging
www.alz.org National Alzheimer's
Association
www.apdaparkinson.org American Parkinson Disease
Association
www.caremanager.org National
Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers
www.eldercare.gov Eldercare
Locator, a directory assistance public service of the U.S. Administration on
Aging that helps people locate aging services in every community throughout
the United States
www.healthandage.com Healthandage.com
www.mhsource.com Mental Health Infosource
www.naela.org National Association
of Elder Law Attorneys
www.ninds.nih.gov National Institute on
Neurological Diseases and Stroke
www.seniors.gov Access America
for Seniors, maintained by the Social Security Administration, provides
links to government services and information online
www.wellnessweb.com/SENIORS/eldershp.htm Wellnessweb: Senior’s Center
Fraternal Resources:
Minnesota
www.mn-masons.org Grand Lodge of Minnesota
National
www.americanmason.com American Mason
www.freemasonry.org E-M@son (links to other
Masonic websites)
www.freemasonstore.com
Masonic and fraternal merchandise
www.masonic-network.com The Global Fraternal Network
www.msana.com The Masonic Service Association of
North America
