Here you will find a growing list of resources for news and information on chronic and long-term care information.

If there is a source of information or news which you find useful, please let us know where. This way, we may be able to share it with others.

Internet Search Engines

• Health A to Z—Search an extensive database of health and health-related topics and links
• Chronic care—links to 100 chronic care resources
• Gerontology—links to 100 resources on the study of Gerontology and senior's health
• Long-term care—links to 100 resources on long-term care
• Link to Search Engines—choose your own search topic when prompted to do so

Internet Links

State Government

• The New York State Office for the Aging

• Medicare Handbook—Medicare and You 2000 (PDF format)

 
• Social Security On-Line—Social Security Handbook

 
• Social Security Benefit Publications

 
• Health Care Financing Administration (HFCA)—"The Medicare and Medicaid Agency"

 
• Medicaid Estate Recovery Program

• Senate Special Committee on Aging—Of particular interest

• Senior Citizen Equity Act

 
• Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA)

 

• Insurance News Network (INN)—Insurance Company Ratings, including Best's and Standard & Poor's
• AM Best—Insurance Industry Ratings
• Blue Cross—A directory of links to national health resources
• National Association of Insurance Commissioners
• National Association of Health Underwriters

• Recent news

• U.S. Long-Term Care Market—including Demographic Transition, Demand, Health Care Reimbursement Policy and the Cost of Long-Term Care.

• The New England Centenarian Study—Based at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the New England Centenarian Study's mission is to study centenarians who they believe carry the secrets to successful aging and how to delay or even escape diseases associated with aging.

• The Alzheimer's Association

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