Research and Data Bases

Aging

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• Aging Research Centre (ARC)
• American Federation for Aging Research
• AoA's Elderly Nutrition Program Evaluation
• The Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College of the CUNY is a multidisciplinary gerontology center
• McGill Centre for Studies in Aging: Provides information on research and assistive technology for the aged and disabled
• Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases National Resource Center

Data Bases (data)

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• Centers for Disease Control
• Integrated Network of Disability Information and Education - A directory of disability information on the Internet
• National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
• U.S. Census Bureau
• USDA Nutrient Database

Data Bases (literature)

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• PubMed - From the National Library of Medicine
• Medscape - Online resource for patient care
• Social Work Search Engine is an Internet search engine dedicated to Social Work and topics of interest to the Social Work Profession
• U.S. National Library of Medicine

Disability

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• The Archimedes Project: Improve access to information for the disabled
• Centre for the Study of Health and Illness
• Center for Assistive Technology: At the University of Buffalo
• National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research
• National Center to Improve Practice
• National Eye Care Project from the Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
• National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
• National Rehabilitation Information Center
• Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
• Rehabilitation Medicine: University of Washington SCI information and rehabilitation clinics
• Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision: At Mississippi State University
• Trace Research and Development Center

Education

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• Association for Gerontology in Higher Education was established in 1974 to advance gerontology as a field of study in institutions of higher learning
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
• State Society on Aging of New York

Funding (private)

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• CASE
• Council on Foundations
• Families USA Foundation
• The Foundation Center (includes Funding Trends and Analysis and the Philanthropy News Digest)
• Foundations On-Line
• Grantmaking in Aging
• GrantsWeb
• Internet Prospector
• The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Philanthropy Journal
• Spry Foundation

Funding (public)

Policy Research

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• The Brookings Institution
• Cascade Policy Institute focusing on Oregon public policy questions
• Congressional Budget Office
• Families USA Foundation See the Foundation's policy studies
• GAO Homepage: All General Accounting Office (GAO) reports are online and can be downloaded
• National Association of Counties
• The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government is the public policy research arm of the State University of New York and provides links to other public policy sites
• PolicyNet
• The Public Policy Institute of New York State, Inc
• The Rand Institute
• World Institute on Disability: An international public policy center

Unclassified

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