Aging

Senior Series Factsheets | Custodial Grandparenting | Aging Connections 

Senior Series Factsheets

The "Senior Series Team" is a collaborative task force consisting of professionals from Ohio State University Extension, the Ohio Department of Aging and the Ohio Aging Network. Educational resources and programming material developed by the Senior Series Team are available at no charge.

Senior Series Fact Sheets on Ohioline

• Caregiving
• Communication
• Consumer Affairs
• Health & Fitness
• Homes/Housing
• Intergenerational
• Medications
• Nutrition
• Relationships in Later Life
• Miscellaneous

Additional Fact Sheets on Aging

• Supporting the Bereaved
• The Benefits of Grandparenting
• Facts about Caregivers and the Elderly
• "Honey, I'm Home!"--For Good:  The Transition to Retirement,
• You and Your Aging Parents
• Helping Others Cope With Grief

"Aging Families" Series Bulletin

• Siblings in Later Life Bulletin #1
• Sandwich Generation Bulletin #2
• Successful Aging Bulletin #3

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Custodial Grandparenting

Fact Sheets

• Grandparents Helping Grandchildren in Times of Stress
• Grandparents As Parents Again
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Census Bureau Facts
• Children's Defense Fund: Kinship Care Resources Kit

Websites

• State Fact Sheets for Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children
  • In Ohio
• AARP Grandparent Study 2002
• Generational United
• National Adoption Resources
• Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP): Washington State University Cooperative Extension

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Aging Connections

Federal Agencies/Organizations

• U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA)
• Benefits Check up (NCOA)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• National Center on Elder Abuse
• National Council on Aging (NCOA)
• National Institute on Aging
• National Institute of Health
• Social Security Administration
• U.S. Senate Committee on Aging
• Veterans Affairs Department
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• CDC: Healthy Aging for Older Adults

State Agencies/Organizations

• Ohio Department of Aging
• Senior Independence of Ohio

Aging Organizations

• American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
• Generations United
• Experience works senior workforce solutions

Retirement/Volunteer

• 

  Road Scholar (formerly Elderhostel)

• Senior Corps
• Setting Priorities for Retirement Years (SPRY)
• Volunteer Match
• Volunteers of America

General

• Eldernet
• First Gov Resources for Seniors
• Seniors Aging Well

Health/Caregiving

• Family Caregiving, eXtension
• Alliance for Aging Research
• Caregiving.Com
• Family Caregiver Alliance
• Infoaging.org
• National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers
• Web MD Health

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