| AARP AgeLine Database | Abstracts of social gerontology and aging-related articles, books, and reports. |
| AARP Internet Resources on Aging | AARP now offers a site where you can search or browse through a directory of more than 900 carefully selected Websites on aging, regularly updated. |
| Ageing as Exile | "Exile is the cradle of nationality," according to Michael Higgins, Ireland's former minister of arts, culture and the Gaeltacht. We should "presuppose a sort of dialogue among exiles" who are together in a new place. Viewing ageing as "exile" offers a new (and positive) perspective about exile and ageing - one that can lead to older people better understanding their common "nationality" of what it means to be fully human - to be part of a greater whole. This blog explores the intersection of aging, creativity, purpose, transition, learning and well-being. It is edited by Steve Dahlberg. |
| Bioethics Resources on the Web | The Internet is replete with resources available to those with an interest in bioethics including education, research involving human participants and animals, medical and health care ethics, and the implications of applied genetics and biotechnology. This website contains a broad collage of annotated web links, and while this list is comprehensive, it is not totally inclusive. The listed resources provide background information and various positions on issues in bioethics. |
| Caring Connections | Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life. The website offers free resources and information to help people make decisions about end-of-life care and services before a crisis. |
| Caring Connections | This site is written by and for Lutheran practitioners and educators in the fields of pastoral care, counseling, and education. It seeks to promote both breadth and depth of reflection on the theology and practice of ministry in Lutheran tradition. Caring Connections intends to be academically informed, yet readable; solidly grounded in the practice of ministry; and theologically probing. |
| Center on Aging and Older Adult Ministry | A ministry of the General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church, this center seeks to support the growing needs of an increasingly "graying" church and society. |
| Changing Population Structures | The Environmental Literacy Council offers an overview of the implications of population aging for the world around us. |
| The Clear Light Society | This site offers guidance on using Buddhist resources on meditation to assist the dying. The Society offers classes on various related subjects in a variety of US locations. |
| Community Partnerships for Older Adults | CPFOA fosters community partnerships to improve long-term care and supportive services systems. |
| Forum on Religion, Spirituality and Aging (FORSA) | The Forum on Religion, Spirituality and Aging (FORSA) constitutes a national, multidisciplinary and nondenominational community of professionals committed to examining and fostering the spiritual dimension of human existence as a central element in the aging process and to fostering an appreciation for the importance of incorporating an awareness of this dimension into all the disciplines that make up the fascinating world of gerontology. |
| The Future of Aging blog | Creating the future of aging services requires conversation, understanding, innovation , and most of all, action. We hope that this blog will inspire others to engage and participate in a movement that will transform the way we age in this country. |
| Dying Well | Resources for people facing life-limiting illness, their families, and their professsional caregivers. |
| Global Action on Aging | Global Action on Aging (GAA), based in New York at the United Nations, reports on older people’s needs and potential within the global economy. It advocates by, with and for older persons worldwide. |
| Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism | Hiddur seeks to empower the growing numbers of Jews entering later life—helping them to connect to lifelong learning and spiritual and religious engagement, and to contribute their wisdom and talent. |
| HSBC The Future of Retirement | This website is dedicated to the largest global study to date, examining people's hopes and fears for their later years. |
| Human Values in Aging Newsletter | Email aarpnews@news.aarp.org to receive the online newsletter. |
| Infoaging.org | The website of the American Federation for Aging Research. |
| Itineraries | Itineraries is the newsletter of Second Journey, a nonprofit group that seeks to promote mindfulness, service, and community in the second half of life. Through this page, one can access the Second Journey page, complete with its own resource links and articles that cover a variety of topics. |
| The National Caregivers Library | The National Caregivers Library is one of the most extensive online libraries for caregivers that exists today. It consists of hundreds of articles, forms, checklists and links to topic-specific external resources. |
| LifeBio | An online tool to help people record their own LifeBio. |
| Literature and Aging | See Anne Wyatt-Brown's insightful introduction to the field, with a list of recommended novels, diaries, and a bibliography. |
| Living Old | A PBS Frontline special, original airdate Nov. 21, 2006. |
| Older Adult Ministries | Older Adult Ministries page for the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church. Includes a resource page, surveys, and programming information. |
| The Pacific Institute | The Pacific Institute's vision over the next ten years is to help in changing the paradigm for teaching and learning how to care for the elderly and people with chronic mental health issues from a humanistic, process-oriented perspective. |
| PC(USA) Older Adult Ministries | The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is committed to equipping leaders, developing covenant connections and providing resources to welcome and encourage older adults to participate at every level of the church while meeting their needs and utilizing their talents. This is done by means of important networks of Presbyterians out in the church working with older adults. |
| The Positive Aging Newsletter | The positive aging newsletter is dedicated to productive dialogue between research and practice. To subscribe go to http://www.healthandage.com/Home/gm=22 or write to Mary Gergen at gv4@psu.edu. Past issues are available at: http://www.positiveaging.net. |
| Ritual Well | The ritual well site offers contemporary, creative liturgical resources for all kinds of life passages and sacred moments. Based in the Jewish tradition. |
| Sacred Seasons | From this website Sacred Seasons celebration kits can be obtained. The kits are comprehensive resources designed to help staff or volunteers (without Jewish background) to help Jewish elders in nursing homes, assisted living or retirement communities to celebrate Shabbat and holidays. |
| Senior Adult Ministries | The Assemblies of God USA maintains this website "To encourage those in our Fellowship who are 50 and over to participate in activities that foster spiritual growth and health, age-level educational pursuits, evangelistic outreach, and wholesome fellowship events. To promote strong focal points of need so that people may be involved in an area that interests them." |
| Stephen Ministries | The Stephen Series provides congregations with the structure, training, and resources to set up and administer a complete system for lay caring ministry (called Stephen Ministry) in the congregation. In Stephen Ministry congregations, lay caregivers (called Stephen Ministers) provide one-to-one Christian care to the bereaved, hospitalized, terminally ill, separated, divorced, unemployed, relocated, and others facing a crisis or life challenge. |
| TIME:Toolkit of Instruments to Measure End-of-Life Care | The website offers a brief literature review and then lists 25 potential instruments for consideration. These are divided into four groups of scales which measure: 1) quality of life, 2) attitudes, 3) religiousness, and 4) spirituality. |
| Transitional Keys | Transitional Keys offers tools to provide meaning and fulfillment at times of change and transition, especially those marked by celebrations, losses and major turning points. Transitional Keys is a technique to bring integration, connection to community and a restorative approach when meeting the challenges of daily life. |