Organizations/Associations
AARP
AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons) is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to addressing the needs and interests of persons 50 years and older. Through information and education, advocacy and service, they seek to enhance the quality of life for all by promoting independence, dignity, and purpose.
Alzheimer’s Association
The Alzheimer’s Association is the largest national voluntary health organization dedicated to funding research into the causes, treatments, prevention, and cure of Alzheimer’s disease and to providing support to the four million Americans with the disease, their families, and caregivers.
Alzinfo.org
Alzinfo.org is a tool of the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation to educate people about this devastating disease. The mission of the website is to educate, engage, and create an online community with 24 hours a day, 7 days a week access to information and support via online chats, message boards and the most comprehensive resource databases available.
American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service. Their website contains valuable resources including prevention and risk factors, treatment methods, detection guidelines, and patient services that help cancer patients and their families.
Compassion and Choices
Compassion and Choices works to protect and expand end-of-life options, and to ensure healthcare providers honor and enable patients’ decisions about their care. They work nationwide in state legislatures, Congress, courts, medical settings and communities to empower the public with information and tools, advance policies that allow individuals to make fully informed decisions about their healthcare, and authorize and implement medical aid in dying.
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (Consumer Resources: Understanding Health Reform)
Kaiser is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. They serve as a non-partisan source of facts, information, analysis and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public.
Medicare Rights Center
Medicare Rights Center (MRC) is the largest independent source of health care information and assistance in the United States for people with Medicare. Founded in 1989, MRC helps older adults and people with disabilities get good, affordable health care. MRC’s website contains information about Medicare benefits, options and changes, examples of interesting cases we have dealt with, and resources for getting involved in our consumer advocacy work. The site also contains updated information for consumers about changes in Medicare and how those will affect their health coverage.
Medicare Interactive
Medicare Interactive is brought to you by the Medicare Rights Center (MRC), a national not-for-profit, consumer service organization, dedicated to ensuring that older adults and people with disabilities get good affordable health care. Since 1989, MRC has been helping people with Medicare understand their rights and benefits, navigate the system and get the health care to which they are entitled.
National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc., is a nonprofit association which assists lawyers, bar organizations, and others who work with older clients and their families. Established in 1987, the Academy provides a resource of information, education, networking, and assistance to those who must deal with the many specialized issues involved with legal services to the elderly and disabled.
National Alliance for Caregiving
A resource for caregiving families and professionals, NAC is a Bethesda based association of caregiving professional organizations that provides information, support, and national advocacy on behalf of caregivers. NAC’s site is a source of information for professionals looking for access to primary information on national issues on caregiving.
National Association of Social Workers
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the largest organization of professional social workers in the world. NASW serves nearly 155,000 social workers in 55 chapters throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and abroad. NASW was formed in 1955 through a merger of seven predecessor social work organizations to carry out three responsibilities: strengthen and unify the profession; promote the development of social work practice; and advance sound social polices. Promoting high standards of practice and protecting the consumer of services are major association principles.
National Consumer Voice for Long-Term Care (formerly NCCNHR)
The mission of the National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform is to improve the quality of life of residents in the nation’s nursing homes.
National Guardianship Association
The mission of the National Guardianship Association is to provide educational, training, and networking opportunities for guardians; to promote the highest levels of values, standards and ethics; and to ensure a nationally recognized standard of excellence.
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
The Society helps people affected by MS by funding cutting-edge research, driving change through advocacy, facilitating professional education, and providing programs and services that help people with MS and their families move their lives forward. Contact the National Multiple Sclerosis Society at 1.800.344.4867.
Senior Resource Connect
Senior Resource Connect brings the experience and expertise of the AJFCA network to the public to support older adults to live with health and dignity in the setting of their choosing and to assist caregivers in making this possible for their parents and loved ones. Senior Resource Connect provides information and resources to assist individuals in discussing their needs with aging services professionals and provides a one-stop connection to local service providers in communities throughout North America.