Senior Health & Health Care Web Sites
Selected links presented to off-site resource sites. Clicking on a link will open a new browser window. To return to this page, simply close the new window.
| Choice in Dying | Choice in Dying, which was behind the original
living will documents, provides an enormous amount of good, solid information
on end-of-life care, patients' legal rights, planning for end-of-life care,
advance directives (living will and health-care-proxy forms) and contacts
for further guidance. |
| Colorado Medicare Site | Colorado Medicare Site is the Colorado government site for
medicare information. |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | Through their website, the VA offers information about benefits
for veterans and their dependents. |
| HealthFinder | A free gateway to consumer health and human services information
web site developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Click on Seniors link and find links to selected online publications,
clearinghouses, databases, web sites, support groups, as well as the government
agencies and not-for-profit organizations. |
| Homecare On-Line | The National Alliance for Home Care is a trade
organization, but this site provides information on finding, paying for,
and selecting the right home care and hospice care. |
| Mayo Clinic | The Mayo Clinic site gives answers to questions
about drugs, diseases, etc. |
| Medicare | A government site aimed at educating consumers about Medicare
health plans and policies, government publications and fraud. |
| Medscape | If healthfinder.com doesn't answer your medical questions,
try medscape, a reliable source of medical information that will lead you
to medical journals, a medical dictionary and the database of the National
Library of Medicine. |
| National Institute on Aging | Lists of publications available to the public. Topics related
to health and aging. |
| National Institute on Aging | Providing information about disease prevention and health
promotion activities will help you become more knowledgeable about the health
problems you may face and how you can prevent, delay, or manage them. |
| Senior Health Medicare | from the CO Div. of Insurance — helps people enrolled in Medicare with questions about health insurance return to links menu. |
