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TEXAS & US HEALTH RELATED AGENCIES GOVERNMENT Administration on Aging: www.aoa.gov Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: www.ahrq.gov AgingStats.gov: www.agingstats.gov Alzheimer's Association: www.alz..org Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: www.cms.hhs.gov Consumer Product Safety Commission: www.eldercare.com Eldercare Locator: www.eldercare.gov Department of Health and Human Services: www.hhs.gov Environmental Protection Agency: www.epa.gov Aging Initiative: www.epa.gov/aging/index.htm FirstGov for Seniors: www.seniors.gov Food & Drug Administration: www.fda.gov Healthy People 2010: www.healthypeople.gov Healthfinder: www.healthfinder.gov HRSA Office of Rural Health Policy: www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov Indian Health Service: www.ihs.gov Medicare: www.medicare.gov National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: www.nhtsa.dot.gov/ National Institute of Aging: www.nia.nih.gov National Institutes of Health: www.nih.gov NIH Senior Health: www.nihseniorhealth.ogv National Institute on Aging: www.nih.gov/nia Resource Directory for Older People: www.nia.nih.gov National Institute of Mental health www.nimh.nih.gov National Policy and Resource Center on Women and Aging: www.nia.nih.gov/rd/209.html Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: www.odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov Office of the Surgeon General: www.surgeongeneral.gov/sgoffice.htm Office on Women’s Health: www.4woman.gov Social Security Administration: www.ssa.gov State and Area Agencies on Aging: www.aoa.gov The Access Board: www.access-board.gov United States Department of Agriculture: www.usda.gov United States Department of Health and Human Services: www.dhhs.gov HHS Aging: www.dhhs.gov/aging United States Department of Labor: www.dol.gov U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging: www.aging.senate.gov White House Conference on Aging: www.whcoa.gov
Alliance for Health Reform: www.allhealth.org Center for Studying Health System Change: www.hschange.org Children’s Defense Fund: www.childrensdefense.org Families USA: www.familiesusa.org Urban Health Initiative: www.urbanhealth.org/ National Mental Health Association: www.nmha.org National Network for Immunization Information: www.immunizationinfo.org Trust for America’s Health: www,healthyamericans.org
AARP: www.aarp.org Alliance for Aging Research: www.agingresearch.org American College of Health Care Administrators: www.achca.org American Federation of Aging Research: www.afar.org American Society on Aging: www.asaging.org American Geriatrics Society: www.americangeriatrics.org Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: www.bc.edu/centers/crr/ Gerontological Society of America: www.geron.org Grantmakers in Aging: www.giaging.org Institute for the Study of Aging: www.aging-institute.org John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing: www.nyu.edu/education/nursing National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys: www.naela.org National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging: www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/ National Association of Area Agencies on Aging: www.n4a.org National Association of State Units on Aging (NASUA): www.nasua.org National Council on Aging: www.ncoa.org National Senior Citizens Law Center: www.nsclc.org Resources Centers for Minority Aging Research: www.rcmar.ucla.edu Secrets of Aging: www.secretsofaging.org
National Asian Pacific Center on Aging: www.napca.org National Caucus and Center on Black Aged: www.ncba-aged.org National Center on Women and Aging: www.brandeis.edu/heller/national/ind.html National Hispanic Council on Aging: www.nhcoa.org National Indian council on Aging: www.nicoa.org National Resource Center on Native American Aging: www.med.und.nodak.edu National Society for American Indian Elderly: www.nsaie.org Older Women’s League: www.owl-national.org Segunda Juventud: www.aarpsegundajuventud.org
AARP Foundation: www.aarp.org/foundation/ Atlantic Foundation of New York: www.atlanticphilanthropies.org Beverly Foundation: www.beverlyfoundation.org California Endowment: www.calendow.com/ California Healthcare Foundation: www.chcf.org Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation: www.hartfordign.org Geriatric Mental Health Foundation: www.gmhfonline.org/gmhf/ John A. Hartford Foundation: www.jhartfound.org The American Geriatrics Society/Foundation: www.healthinaging.org The Commonwealth Fund: www.cmwf.org/ Kaiser Family Foundation: www.kff.org Kaiser State Health Statistics: www.statehealthfacts.kff.org W.K. Kellogg Foundation: http://www.wkkf.org Retirement Research Foundation: www.rrf.org/ Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: www.rwjf.org
C.A.R.E-PRO: www.asaging.org/care-pro/ National Alliance for Care Giving: www.caregiving.org Care Guide: www.eldercare.com/ Children of Aging Parents: www.caps4caregivers.org/ Benefitscheckup.org: www.benefitscheckup.org Family Caregiver Alliance: www.caregiver.org National Adult Day Services Association: www.nadsa.org National Association of Professional Geriatric care Managers: www.caremanager.org National Family Caregivers Association: www.nfcacares.org
AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety Senior Driver Web Site: www.SeniorDrivers.org AARP Driver Safety Program: www.aarp.org/drive American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging: www.aahsa.org American Public Transportation Association: http://www.apta.com/ Center of Design for an Aging Society: http://www.centerofdesign.org Independent Transportation Network: www.itnincamerica.org
American Dietetic Association: http://www.eatright.org American Academy of Pediatrics: http://www.aap.org American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) www.aahsa.org American Health Care Association: www.ahca.org American Nurses Association: http://www.nursingworld.org American Medical Student Association: http://www.amsa.org American Psychological Association: http://www.apa.org Association of American Indian Physicians: http://www.aaip.com Association of Medical Colleges: http://www.aamc.org Association of Clinicians for the Underserved: http://www.clinicians.org Association of Schools of Public Health: http://www.asph.org Association of State and Territorial Health Officials: http://www.astho.org Council on Education for Public Health: http://www.ceph.org National Association of Social Workers: http://www.socialworkers.org National Association of County and City Health Officials: http://www.naccho.org National Association of Community Health Centers: http://www.nachc.org National Association of Hispanic Nurses: http://www.thehispanicnurses.org National Association of Local Boards of Health: http://www.nalboh.org National Black Nurses Association: http://www.nbna.org National Hispanic Medical Association: http://www.nhmamd.org National Medical Association: http://www.nmanet.org National Mental Health Association: www.nmha.org/ National Partnership for Immunization: http://www.partnersforimmunization.org National Rural Health Association: http://www.nrharural.org Society for Public Health Education: www.sophe.org Visiting Nurse Associations of America: www.vnaa.org
