Other Helpful Links
General
- AARP - AARP's web site provides helpful information for older adults. Visit the Health and Wellness section.
- Administration on Aging - This web site helps seniors and caregivers identify community-level services to meet the needs of older adults.
- American Cancer Society - This web site provides information about cancer, treatment options, and coping with cancer.
- American Heart Association - Read and download information about heart disease and stroke.
- Benefits CheckUp - This free online service helps seniors and caregivers access hundreds of public benefits programs.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - This is the web site for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC is the leading federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people.
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - This is the official web site of the government agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid.
- Department of Veterans Affair - This web site is a resource that provides information on Veterans Affairs (VA) programs and veterans benefits.
- ElderWeb - This site features current information for older adults, including policy changes and insurance issues. Visitors can download handbooks and resource guides.
- General Medicare Information - This official U.S. government web site provides general information about most Medicare topics.
- Health and Human Services - This is the official web site of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- Indiana State Department of Health - This is the official web site of the Indiana State Department of Health.
- MedQIC - The Medicare Quality Improvement Community, a Web-based resource created and supported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for its Medicare National Quality Improvement Priorities.
- Medicare Rights Center - This web site contains information about the rights of Medicare patients, as well as general Medicare information.
- National Government Services (Formerly AdminaStar Federal) - This is the web site for the company that processes many of the Medicare claims for Kentucky.
- Nursing Home Information - Visit this web site and click on Nursing Home Compare to obtain information about all Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing homes in the United States. Categories include nursing home inspections, nursing home patient-to-staff ratios, and nursing home quality.
- National Cancer Institute - The National Cancer Institutes web site provides information about cancer treatments and data.
- National Stroke Association - This web site provides information on the treatment and prevention of strokes.
- National Institute on Aging - This web site provides resource information for older adults.
- National Council on the Aging - This is the web site of the National Council on the Aging, a center of leadership in the issues of aging.
- Palmetto Government Benefits Administrators - This is the web site for the company that processes the home health, hospice, and durable medical equipment Medicare claims.
- Quality Health Care - A global knowledge environment created to help health care professionals around the world accelerate their progress toward unprecedented levels of performance and improvement.
- Senior Health Information Program (SHIIP) - SHIIP is a free service to help caregivers and older adults with Medicare and/or insurance questions and with locating appropriate services.
- Social Security Administration - This is the official Social Security web site. Visit it to read general information about Social Security and enrolling in Medicare.
- State
Health Facts Online - This web site contains the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.
Influenza - Immunization - Pneumonia
- Flu Bulletin - Provides updates on recent developments in vaccine supply, production, and distribution.
- The CDC Influenza Prevention and Control - Provides flu shot information.
- Flu and Pneumonia information - Provides information on fighting the flu and pneumonia.
- Influenza Weekly Surveillance - Provides weekly influenza summary updates.
- The Home Page of the National Immunization Program - As a disease-prevention program, NIP provides leadership for the planning, coordination, and conduct of immunization activities nationwide.
- Immunization Intro - National Network for Immunization Information - The National Network for Immunization Information (NNii) provides up-to-date, science-based information to health care professionals, the media, policy makers, and the public - everyone who needs to know the facts about immunization.
- The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists 100% Immunization Campaign - The primary goal of the 100% Immunization Campaign is to ensure that all older adults are immunized against influenza and pneumococcal disease, including residents of nursing facilities and assisted living environments.
- Medicare Influenza/Pneumococcal Vaccination Benefits - Provides questions and answers about Influenza/Pneumococcal Vaccination benefits.
- The Guide to Community Preventive Services - The Community Guide, developed under the guidance of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, (the Task Force), makes recommendations regarding public health interventions to reduce illness, disability, premature death, and environmental hazards that impair community health and quality of life.
- The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) - The BRFSs, the world's largest telephone survey, tracks health risks in the United States. Information from the survey is used to improve the health of the American people.
Indiana
- Area Agencies on Aging - This web site helps Hoosiers identify local resources and links them to additional web sites.
- Hoosier Rx - Hoosier Rx is Indiana's prescription drug program for low-income seniors.
- MedQIC
Kentucky
- Department for Medicaid Services - This web site helps readers to understand Medicaid, the federal/state program that helps pay medical bills for low-income residents of Kentucky.
- Kentucky Department of Insurance - This is the web site for the state agency that oversees insurance sold in Kentucky.
- The Kentucky Nurses Association - This is a full-service professional organization for the state's entire nurse population. In addition to its role to promote the essential role of the registered nurse in health care delivery, the Association serves as an advocate for quality patient care in all settings.
- Office of Aging Services - State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) This web site helps the residents of Kentucky identify local Agencies on Aging and local SHIP counselors. SHIP is the free state program available to help seniors and caregivers with insurance and/or Medicare questions and with locating appropriate services.
