Alzheimer's Disease
Other Places To Get Help
Organizations
Alzheimer's Association 225 North Michigan Avenue, Floor 17 Chicago, IL 60601-7633 Phone: 1-800-272-3900 Fax: 1-866-699-1246 toll-free TDD: 1-866-403-3073 toll-free E-mail: info@alz.org Web Address: www.alz.org The Alzheimer's Association is a national organization that provides educational materials, support groups, and community services for people dealing with Alzheimer's disease. It has more than 200 local chapters throughout the United States. The organization publishes a newsletter as well as a wide range of brochures and videos. The Web site includes a lot of useful information for people with Alzheimer's and other dementias, as well as for their caregivers.
Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center P.O. Box 8250 Silver Spring, MD 20907 Phone: 1-800-438-4380 Fax: (301) 495-3334 Web Address: www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers Part of the National Institute on Aging, ADEAR is a government-funded agency that prepares computer searches on educational and library resources as well as information on clinical drug trials.
Alzinfo.org Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation One Intrepid Square, West 46th Street & 12th Avenue New York, NY 10036 Phone: 1-800-ALZ-INFO (1-800-259-4636) E-mail: info@alzinfo.org Web Address: www.alzinfo.org Alzinfo.org was created by the Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation to educate people about Alzheimer's disease. The mission of the Web site is to build an online community with 24-hours-a-day/7-days-a-week access to information and support via online chats, message boards, and resource databases.
Family Caregiver Alliance 180 Montgomery Street Suite 1100 San Francisco, CA 94104 Phone: 1-800-445-8106
(415) 434-3388E-mail: info@caregiver.org Web Address: www.caregiver.org This organization supports and assists people who are providing long-term care at home. It also provides education, research, services, and advocacy.
National Institutes of Health Senior Health 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20892 Phone: (301) 496-4000 E-mail: custserv@nlm.nih.gov Web Address: www.NIHSeniorHealth.gov This Web site for older adults offers aging-related health information. The Web site's senior-friendly features include large print, simple navigation, and short, easy-to-read segments of information. A visitor to this Web site can click special buttons to hear the text aloud, make the text larger, or turn on higher contrast for easier viewing.
The site was developed by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIHSeniorHealth features up-to-date health information from NIH. Also, the American Geriatrics Society provides independent review of some of the material found on this Web site.
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| Author: | Monica Rhodes | Last Updated: November 10, 2008 |
| Medical Review: | Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine Peter J. Whitehouse, MD - Neurology | |
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