Links to Related Information and Resources
Driving
Are My Parents Safe To Drive (DVD)
Love of Car: Transportation as We Age
National Center on Senior Transportation
AARP (much consumer information!)
Benefits Check-up (on-line tool)
Choosing Long-term Care (For people who are largely unfamiliar with the options and implications of long-term care services to make more thoughtful and more satisfying decision at a time of crisis and uncertainty.)
Dear Marci -- Medicare Questions Answered
Eldercare Locator (helps you find eldercare services in other parts of the country)
Encore Careers! (Encore.org is published by Civic Ventures, a nonprofit think tank that is leading the call to engage millions of experienced individuals in becoming a force for social change. Civic Ventures focuses on creating pathways to encore careers that provide continued income doing work that is personally fulfilling and helps address some of society’s biggest challenges.)
Medicare (learn more about Medicare, health insurance coverage for people age 65 or older)
Medicare and Paying for Long-term Care
Video: The New Faces of Aging in America
Nursing Home Compare (uses data reported to the government to compare nursing homes)
Nursing Home Culture Change Movement (creating home in the nursing home)
NEW! Paying for Health Insurance if Under Age 65
Senior Driving (tips and facts)
Senior Drivers Advice for families with aging driver concerns
Local Links
Eldersource (eldercare management in Monroe County)
Alzheimers Association (services)
OASIS (educational and fun classes for Monroe County's older adults)
Catholic Family Center (family service agency)