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Connecting Caregivers

www.ConnectingCaregivers.com

Our aim here at Connecting Caregivers is to provide family caregivers with a valuable source of information for caregivers to people who suffer from alzheimers, stroke, MS, and other brain-impairing conditions. Please visit our blog, it provides important advice from healthcare professionals, trusted advisors in long term care, in-home support services, and most importantly, family caregivers just like yourself. Caregiving is difficult, very difficult. We could all use a bit of solace from learning from people who have been there before.

Faith in Action

Faith in Action is an interfaith volunteer caregiving initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Local Faith in Action programs bring together volunteers from many faiths to care for their neighbors who have long-term health needs.

www.fiavolunteers.org

Family Caregiver Alliance

Since 1977, Family Caregiver Alliance has been a public voice for caregivers. Its pioneering programs—information, education, services, research, and advocacy—support and sustain the important work of families and friends caring for loved ones with chronic disabling health conditions. One of the largest and oldest organizations in the United States devoted solely to caregivers, FCA and its National Center on Caregiving offer programs at local, state, and national levels. Contact FCA for information about caregiver resources in your area.

www.caregiver.org

FCA is pleased to announce the addition of new and updated data in its on-line resource, "Caregiving Across the States." State profiles contain the state's background characteristics related to caregiving and aging, as well as information on publicly-funded caregiver support programs. You'll find the updated data in the "Selected State Background Characteristics" sections of the State Profiles.

FamilyDoctor.org

FamilyDoctor.org is operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and is their patient education site. It includes hundreds of handouts, brochures, flowcharts and other resources for patients. All of the information on FamilyDoctor.org has been written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals at the AAFP.

www.familydoctor.org/

Friends’ Health Connection

Friends' Health Connection is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that improves quality of life by enhancing physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. We link individuals with similar health challenges for mutual support and provide public access to exceptional health, wellness and motivational programs nationwide.

www.friendshealthconnection.org

GeroNurseOnline.org

GeroNurseOnline.org is a comprehensive Website that offers geriatric nursing topics, tools, and resources to assist nurses in recognizing and caring for common clinical changes in the older adult, information on certification, and more, presented by Nurse Competence in Aging.

www.geronurseonline.org

Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing

The John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, housed at New York University's College of Nursing, is the only nurse-led institute in the country seeking to improve the quality of the nation's health care for older Americans. The Hartford Institute has developed partnering programs, models, and resources to positively influence both the individual nurse's competence and the systems in which nurses learn and work.

www.hartfordign.org

Healthy Monday

Healthy Monday introduces the idea of Monday as a weekly reminder to take action for your health. It's a simple but powerful concept being applied to a wide variety of public health concerns by a diverse network of business and consumer groups, health advocacy organizations, and academic institutions including some of America's leading schools of public health – all dedicated to improving the health of Americans.

The goal of the Healthy Monday campaign is to provide a framework for the delivery of innovative, evidence-based health campaigns aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality associated with the four leading causes of preventable disease in the United States: poor diet and inactivity, smoking, and alcohol misuse. Healthy Monday is a project of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

For more information, visit HealthyMonday.org or Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

HeartMath

The Institute of HeartMath is an internationally recognized nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to heart-based living - people relying on the intelligence of their hearts in concert with their minds to conduct their lives at home, school, work and play. HeartMath has been researching heart intelligence, stress and emotional management for more than 16 years and applied its findings to practical, easy-to-use tools that have been scientifically developed and tested. You'll find powerful applications on this Web site such as our online Stress and Well-Being Survey that provide personalized, life-changing solutions to help you experience the physical, mental and emotional benefits of heart-based living. These applications, along with HeartMath's many products and services, help students, educators, parents, workers, healthcare practitioners and professionals around the world transform stress so they can think more clearly, perform better and feel balanced, energized and in control.

www.HeartMath.org