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Housing

  • Colorado Senior Living
    Connecting Seniors with Senior Living Communities (search by towns in Colorado).
  • Senior Housing Net
    A guide to active adult communities, independent and assisted living.
  • American Seniors Housing Association
    Members of the American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA) are executives involved in the operation, development and finance of the entire spectrum of seniors housing - senior apartments, independent living communities, assisted living residences, and continuing care retirement communities.
  • New LifeStyles
    New LifeStyles Online is the ultimate resource for senior living and care options. It provides you with everything you need to make an informed, comfortable decision about your own or your loved one's future. These easily accessible resources saves you time and money, and helps cut down on the frustration of trying to find information from multiple sources, agencies, or organizations.
  • Nursing Home Compare
    This tool from Medicare contains detailed information about past performance of every Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing home in the country. Sites receive ratings on health inspections, nursing home staffing, residents quality measures (health, physical functioning, mental status, general well being), and fire safety inspections.
  • Plan for eldercare

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Medical Sources and Information
  • National Library of Medicine's NIHSeniorHealth
    NIHSeniorHealth was developed to provide seniors and caregivers with reliable aging-related health information. It includes 43 health topics, health videos, Medicare basics for caregivers, a trainer's toolkit to help older adults learn to search online health information, and links to tips on making websites senior friendly. The site has many senior-friendly features allowing users to easily increase the text size, change the page color for higher contrast, or activate the "talking" function that reads text aloud.
  • National Institute on Aging
    This website provides information on healthy aging, care giving, dietary supplements, and diseases in both English and Spanish. It also provides links to other National Institutes of Health and other government websites. This Institute conducts scientific research to understand the nature of aging and extending one's healthy active years. In addition to health information, the site has a searchable database of over 300 national organizations that provide help to older adults.
  • Medicare
    Medicare's official site provides information on comparing prescription drug plans, health plans and hospitals. In addition, you can learn about planning for long-term care, Medicare eligibility, find resources for caregivers, and locate Medicare forms.

  • health and Wellness LogoHealth and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module 
    Find alternative medicine-focused magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, videos, & reference information on: Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Pregnancy, Herbal remedies, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, health assessment sites & government databases. Easily access 700+ videos from Healthology, Inc.'s consumer health video library. Spanish-language videos are available. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
  • Center for Healthy Aging
    The mission of the University of Pittsburgh's "Center for Healthy Aging" is to promote healthy lifestyles and disease prevention in the older adult population of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania through education, research, and public service.
  • WebMD
    One of the best sites for general consumer information on health-related issues and advice.
  • MedLine Plus
    A good place to start when you need answers. A goldmine of good health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.
  • patientINFORM
    Provides patients and their caregivers access to some of the most up-to-date, reliable and important research available about the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases.

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LegalLegal Forms
Thompson Gale LegalForms
Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.

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Recreation

  • American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation
    The American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation (AAPAR) is dedicated to enhancing quality of life by promoting creative and active lifestyles through meaningful physical activity, recreation and fitness experiences across the lifespan with particular focus on community-based programs.

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Travel
  • Farecast
    A travel search engine that not only helps you find cheap flights, but also offers predictions that help you decide whether to buy now or wait it out because the fare might be coming down in the near future. You can even see graphs depicting probable fares for the next 30 days.
  • SmarterTravel.com - Seniors
    SmarterTravel.com summarizes the best senior travel discounts and specials on airfare, hotels, cruises, tours, vacations, and more.
  • Click here for a "Travel on a Budget" pathfinder.

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Miscellaneous
  • USA.gov
    This award-winning official portal to all things government has a wealth of resources for seniors. In addition to health information and caregiver resources, this site provides information consumer protection; end-of-life issues; education, jobs and volunteerism for seniors; laws and regulations protecting seniors; financial, retirement, and tax information; and travel and recreation tips and discounts.
  • SeniorDiscounts.com
    Search the largest senior discount database anywhere.
  • Colorado Mountain College - Senior Programs Website
  • ElderCare - Online
    A public service of the U.S. Administration on Aging. The Eldercare Locator connects older Americans and their caregivers with sources of information on senior services. The service links those who need assistance with state and local area agencies on aging and community-based organizations that serve older adults and their caregivers.
  • AARP Web Site
    Membership organization that provides information and advocacy on issues of interest to those 50 and older. Web site has information available to all on finance, health, leisure and other issues.
  • Social Security Administration
    This is the Social Security Administration website.
  • Senior Corps
    Senior Corps is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, an independent federal agency created to connect Americans of all ages and backgrounds with opportunities to give back to their communities and their nation. Includes Foster Grandparents, Senior Companion, and RSVP programs.
  • Veterans Affairs (VA)
    This is the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website.
  • Age of Reason
  • National Council on the Aging
  • United Seniors Association
  • FirstGov for Seniors

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