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Upstate SC Alzheimer's Chapter
The Alzheimer's Association is a wonderful organization offering information regarding Alzheimer's and Dementia. Please contact Debbie Stuart in the Anderson office if you are interesting in applying for the $500
Alzheimer's Respite Voucher.
4124 Clemson Blvd. Suite L
Anderson, SC 29621
1(800) 273-2555
American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
American Association of People with Disabilities
The AAPD is dedicated to further the productivity, independence, full citizenship, and total integration of people with disabilities into all aspects of society and the natural environment.
Alzheimer's Foundation of America
Providing optimal care and services to individuals confronting dementia, and to their caregivers and families.
The American Optometric Association
The authority in the optometric profession and leads the way in its mission of improving the quality and availability of eye and vision care everywhere.
Beltone
Beltone has been helping people hear better for 65 years as the most trusted name in hearing care among adults over fifty.
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
The PSP Society’s mission is to increase awareness of progressive supranuclear palsy, advance research toward a cure, educate health professionals and provide support, education and hope for persons with PSP and their families. PSP: A brain disease that slowly effects walking, balance, swallowing, speaking and eye movement.
Huntington’s Disease Society of America
HDSA provides resources and support for HD families and educates the public (including medical professionals) about HD while building awareness about HD and advocate for HD patients and their families. HD: A degenerative brain disorder that slowly diminishes the ability to work, think, talk and reason.
Johnson & Johnson Strength for Caring
The Caregiver Initiative is a Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Company project to help family caregivers provide care to their loved ones and reduce their own stress. This project works with the many caregiving organizations across the United States and will launch new programs in the coming months.
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Org.
Established by the National Institutes of Health, the NIA leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life.
The National Institute on Aging
The NHPCO is dedicated to promoting and maintaining quality care for terminally ill patients and their families.
NIH SeniorHealth.gov Health information from the National Institutes of Health for Seniors.
Outcome Concept Systems, Inc.
Using powerful data analysis products to improve patient care while enhancing performance.
Patient Advocate Foundation
Patient Advocate Foundation is a national non-profit organization that serves as an active liaison between the patient and their insurer, employer and/or creditors to resolve insurance, job retention and/or debt crisis matters relative to their diagnosis through case managers, doctors and attorneys. Patient Advocate Foundation seeks to safeguard patients through effective mediation assuring access to care, maintenance of employment and preservation of their financial stability.
Private Duty Home Care Association
The PDHCA believes that all persons with needs
should be able to live independently and safely at home
for as long as possible with the assistance
of qualified, accountable home care
services.
Center
for Medicare
and Medicaid
Services is
the federal agency
that administers
Medicare and
Medicaid
www.cms.gov
Attorney
locator service,
by city, state,
or zip code.
The initials
stand for National
Academy for Elder
Law Attorneys. www.naela.org
Veterans
Administration for
information on
benefits and
resources. www.va.gov
Administration
on Aging has
all kinds of
information on
resources, including
a directory of
state Area Agencies
on Aging www.aoa.gov
Eldercare
Locator, 800-677-1116,
will help you
find local community
resources in
any area of the
country, including
meals, home care,
transportation,
etc. www.eldercare.gov
To find
a physician who
specializes in
geriatrics: www.ama-assn.org
The American
Medical Association has
a physician locator service. Look
under the specialty “Geriatrics.”
Aging
with Dignity,
a non-profit
organization,
produces a document
called the
5 Wishes that
provides advance
directives for
medical care. www.agingwithdignity.org
Call
the toll-free number
800-658-8898 for
information and
resources related
to caregiving
and end-of-life
planning.
You can also find
links here to state-specific
forms for advanced
directives. www.caringinfo.org
Their
mission is to help
as many people
as possible make
decisions about
home health, retirement
living, assisted
living, and nursing
home options. www.seniordecision.com
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