Services
Resource information on Aging in Alaska.
http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/gerontology/ Gerontology Minor
http://www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu/
Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska
Anchorage
http://www.alaskaaging.org/
Alaska Commission on Aging
http://www.opagak.com/
Older Person's Action Group - An Advocacy Group which offers
training and referral and publishes the award winning Senior Voice.
http://www.hss.state.ak.us/dalp/
Alaska Pioneer Homes
http://www.hss.state.ak.us/dalp/
State of Alaska Senior and Disabilities Services
A collection of resources about Alaska Native and American Indian
Elders.
http://elders.uaa.alaska.edu/
website of the National Resource Center for American Indian, Alaska
Native and Hawaiian Elders. Located at UAA, this site features original
research conducted in Alaska.
http://ruralhealth.und.edu/projects/nrcnaa/
National Resource Center on American Indian Aging
http://www.airpi.org/
American Indian Policy Center
http://www.anthc.org/
Alaska Native Tribal health Consortium
http://www.alaskool.org/
A favorite. Maintained by the Institute for Socioeconomic Research at
UAA Contains archives of useful information about Alaska Native Culture
and Language
http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/books-of-the-year/
Website of 2008/2009 books of the year. Excellent and growing collection
of resource material about Alaska Natives
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/
Alaska Native Knowledge Network.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/ethnoger/index.html
Stanford University Ethnogerontology site. Very good information about
aging and ethnicity.
http://www.arctichealth.org/ " Information on diverse aspects
of the arctic environment and the health of northern peoples"
Sources of Information about aging
The US Administration on Aging (AoA)http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/
is an excellent source for statistics and research on aging.
The website of the Gerontological Society of American will reveal a
wealth of information on sociology of aging
http://www.geron.org
. Don't neglect the links to other sources.
http://www.aarp.org/research/
Links to AARP’s own research as well as Ageline and other
searchable data bases
http://www.aarp.org/research/ageline/
A searchable database maintained by AARP
Alzheimer’s and Dementia
The website of the National Institute of Health.
http://nihseniorhealth.gov/alzheimersdisease/defined/01.html
has excellent videos, and descriptions. This is a government
funded source and you can copy to send to relatives and friends that are
concerned about physical and mental aspects of aging.
Help available in Alaska can be found on this link
http://www.alzalaska.org/index.html
The National Alzheimer's Association maintains this website.
http://www.alz.org/index.asp
http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/HBO/
An excellent interactive thesaurus of terms about Alzheimer's
http://www.alzheimers.org/adlib/terms.aspx
Retirement
http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2007/HealthRetirementStudy.aspx
This link takes you to an hour and a half webcast an a report about the
Federal Longitudinal Retirement study. You are not required to
view the webcast or read the study for this class but if you are
interested in learning more about retirement and aging, consider it an
excellent resource.
http://www.ssa.gov/history/index.html
Follow the link to the Social Security Website maintained by the US
government. You will find interesting articles about the history of
Social Security. If you watched the Patty Duke show in the 60's, you may
enjoy a promotional video featuring the, now mature, Patty Duke.
http://www.aarp.org/issues/dividedwefail/financial_tools.html
AARP produced these tools to help people over 50 make financial
decisions.
Demography
http://www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/main_site/default.aspx
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/default.htm
Health and aging
http://health.nih.gov/category/SeniorsHealth
Links to excellent videos. One of the best examples of Best
Practices for Web design
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/whi/
Women’s Health Initiative Study
Careers in Aging
http://www.careersinaging.com/careersinaging/
The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education