Resources to keep in your bookmarks file . . .
August 23, 2008 by puffin
I thought this might be a good time to collect a few online resources on health for seniors so you can have quick access when you are researching a question. All of the sites I mention below provide good basic general information as well as reliable discussions of specific health issues.
Remember I am not a physician so neither I nor this site offers any legal assurance that everything on each of the following sites is accurate. But I have found them all useful now and then.
The Medline Line site, part of the US National Institutes of Health, offers specifics on areas like nutrition and the latest news and reference tools as well as information on finance, clinical trials, specific diseases and conditions, and more.
Similarly, the MayoClinic.com Senior Health site provides a sweeping range of topics including end-of-life issues, health care options, depression self-assessment tools. The larger site also offers in-depth discussion of health conditions and current treatments.
I have not used the BenefitsCheckUp site but it promises to be an excellent resource. Designed for limited income and resources seniors and developed by the National Council on Aging, the site “BenefitsCheckUp includes more than 1,550 public and private benefits programs from all 50 states and the District of Columbia . . . .”
And what resource list would be complete without a link to the official US Medicare site? Get the latest info on drugs and the Prescription Drug Plan. Learn about long-term care, keep your personal health records, get replacement cards, and tons more, including a place to appeal Medicare decisions.
If you bookmark all of these sites, you will at least have a starting place for finding the information you need for yourself or someone you love.
Thanks for posting these. More and more people are looking for information online, so it’s good to have some links that are useful. There’s so much bad info out there!