Aging Research and Funding:
Research
Activity in Older Americans: Benefits and
Strategies
Administration on Aging: Quick Index
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Alliance for Aging Research
American Foundation for Aging Research
Bay Area Social Services Consortium (BASSC)
The Center on an Aging Society:
Chronic and Disabling Conditions
Current Awareness in Aging Report
Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics
Geriatric Depression Scale
Goldman Institute on Aging
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
Infoaging.org
Links on the Psychology of Aging
National Center for Health Statistics
National Institute on Aging
U.S. Census Bureau
This report describes the importance of physical
activity, the prevalence and costs of inactivity, and the health benefits of
regular activity. To visit Physical Activity and Older Americans web page, click here.
This comprehensive site managed by the US Dept. of Health and Human Services
contains research on elder abuse prevention, caregiver resources, exercise, statistics
about older adults, aging-related web sites, and much more. To visit the AoA web site, click here.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) research provides
evidence-based information on health care outcomes; quality; and cost, use,
and access. To visit the AHRQ web site, click here.
The Alliance for Aging Research is a nonprofit, independent organization dedicated to improving the health and independence of aging Americans through public and private funding of medical research and geriatric education. To visit the Alliance For Aging Research web site, click here.
The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) helps scientists begin and further careers in aging research and geriatric medicine. AFAR's stated mission is to promote healthier aging through biomedical research. To visit the AFAR web site, click here.
BASSC launched the Research Response Team within the U.C. Berkeley Center for Social Services Research at the School of Social Welfare in 1995.
To visit the BASSC Research site, click here.
Institute for Health Care Research and Policy
The Center on an Aging Society at Georgetown University is a Washington-based, non-partisan public policy institute that fosters critical thinking about the implications of an aging society. To visit this
page, click here.
Chronic conditions are the major cause of illness, disability, and death in the United States. The National Academy will highlight the major chronic and disabling conditions that affect Americans through a series of brochures. To visit this
page, click here.
The Current Awareness in Aging Report (CAAR) is a weekly email report that helps researchers keep up to date with the latest developments in the field. To visit the CAAR web site, click here.
This report covers 31 key indicators selected by the Forum to portray aspects of the lives of older Americans and their families.
To visit the Forum's web site, click here.
This scale was developed as a basic screening measure for depression in older adults. To learn about the scale, click here.
The Goldman Institute on Aging Research Center links the research, clinical and health service experts of the Goldman Institute on Aging and the University of California, San Francisco. To visit the Institute's web site, click here.
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project is a tool for identifying, tracking, analyzing, and comparing statistics on hospitals at the national, regional, and
state level. To visit the HCUP web site, click here.
The Infoaging.org web seeks to provide accurate, timely, unbiased and
trustworthy health & medical information on the aging process and
age-related diseases and conditions, appropriate for an informed and
educated lay audience. To visit the Infoaging.org web site, click here.
This page, created by Professor Susan Krauss Whitbourne of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, contains many useful resources on the psychology of aging and related topics.
To visit the page, click here.
To visit the National Center for Health Statistics, click here.
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), one of the 25 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health, leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. To visit the Research section of the NIA web site, click here.
To visit the U.S. Census Bureau web site, click here.
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