Additional Resources
Agencies/Organizations
- Administration on Aging (AoA)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
- AARP Kansas
- American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)
- American Institute of Architects Design for Aging (AIA)
- American Society on Aging (ASA)
- Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE)
- Center for Policy Research
- Gerontological Society of America
- Kansas Advocates for Better Care (KABC)
- Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services
- Kansas Health Care Association
- Leading Age Kansas
- National Academy on an Aging Society
- National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers
- National Center for Health Statistics
- National Coalition for Mental Health and Aging
- National Elder Law Network
- National Institute on Aging
- National Institute on Aging Demography Centers
- National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
- NCFH Area Agency on Aging
- U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Information Center - Aging
Long-term Care
- American College of Health Care Administrators
- American Health Care Association
- Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA)
- Elder Web -- History of Long-term care
- Kansas Long-Term Care Ombudsman
- National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long-Term Care Administrators
- National Family Caregivers Association
- Terra Nova Video Caregiving - A Visual Education Center for Family Caregivers
Research
- Acronyms in Aging: Organizations, Agencies, Programs & Laws (pdf)
- Center for Demography of Health and Aging
- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: Data & Statistics on Older Americans
- Federal Interagency Forum on Aging Related Statistics
- Growing Old in America: Expectations vs. Reality (Pew Research)
- Health Care Cost Monitor (The Hastings Center)
- Medicare Basics (pdf)
- Medicare Spending and Financing Fact Sheet Kaiser Family Foundation)
- Older Population in the United States: 2011 (US Census Bureau)
- Population Reference Bureau (February 2011): America's Aging Population (pdf)
- Population Reference Bureau: World Population Aging -- Clocks Illustrate Growth in Population Under Age 5 and Over Age 65
- Profile of Older Americans 2011 (pdf)
- Setting the Record Straight about Medicare (AARP Public Policy Institute) (pdf)
- The Next Four Decades: The Older Population in the US 2010-2050 (Census Bureau) (pdf)