Health and Wellness Program
Helpful Websites

Many Americans fail to make the connection between undertaking healthy behaviors today and the impact of these choices later in life. The following sites provide relevant information on the importance of adopting healthy lifestyles.

• AARP Guide for Healthy Living

• Administration on Aging

• American Cancer Society
  A nationwide, community- based voluntary health organization dedicated to fighting the Cancer and Cancer related diseases.

• American Diabetes Association
  The American Diabetes Association is the nation's leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy.

• Alzheimer's Disease Education
  Use this site to find current, comprehensive Alzheimer's disease (AD) information and resources from the U.S. Government's National Institute on Aging (NIA).

• American Heart Association
  Our mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.

• American Journal of Health Promotion
  This site brings together all the disciplines that make up health promotion, presenting the latest thinking on a wide range of health promotion subject.

• Arthritis Foundation
  The Arthritis Foundation is the only national not-for-profit organization that supports the more than 100 types of arthritis and related conditions with advocacy, programs, services and research.

• Centers for Disease Control: Health Topics A-Z

• DOEA Consumer Resource Guide
  This Consumer Resource Guide is about services for elders. Its purpose is to give you, the consumer, the information you need about the services that are available.

• Effective Treatment Options
  Researchers, research centers, and academic organizations worked together with the US Department of Health & Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to produce short guides that provide information about health conditions and list the benefits and harms of different treatment options.

• HELPguide
  Your guide to the best non-commercial links for Mental Health, Aging Well & Elder Care.

• Making Medical Decisions for Someone Else: A How-To Guide (American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging publication, PDF 375 KB)

• MEDLINEplus (sponsored by National Library of Medicine & National Institute of Health)
  This site is a goldmine of good health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.

• National Council on Aging

• National Institute of Health
  The National Institutes of Health is the steward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation. Its mission is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.

• National Institute on Aging Health Information
  The National Institute on Aging (NIA) leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life.

• National Mental Health Association
  The National Mental Health Association is the country's oldest and largest nonprofit organization all aspects of mental health and mental illness.

• National Osteoporosis Foundation
  Fighting Osteoporosis and Bone Health

• National Women's Health Center
  This website and toll-free call center was created to provide FREE, reliable health information for women everywhere.

• USA.gov - Health for Seniors