Caregiver Resource Links - Legal

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1. Aging Care - Connecting People Caring for Elderly Parents
   AgingCare.com is an online community that connects people caring for elderly parents to other caregivers, personalized information, and local resources. Many resources that exist to determine how caregivers can best take advantage of programs, services and products that will enhance their lives and those for whom they provide care.
   
2. Alliance for Retired Americans
   Their objective is to enroll and mobilize retired union members and other seniors and community activists into a nationwide grassroots movement advocating a progressive political and social agenda that respects work and strengthens families to ensure social and economic justice and full civil rights for all citizens.
   
3. American Bar Association: Commission on Law & Aging
   The ABA is an association for lawyers and judges. You can check accreditation status of attorneys and receive referrals at their web site.
   
4. eCare Diary
   eCareDiary.com helps you organize with a free online calendar to help you organize appointments, medication schedules, legal documents and all your care scheduling needs, a set of online tools designed to make coordination of care and sharing of information easy amongst family members and other caregivers and a Search Engine to find a list of certified care services in your local area. Blogs and articles on caregiving are available.
   
5. Elder Abuse Foundation
   The Eden Alternative offers an improved living experience for residents of both Assisted Living-Nursing Home-Hospice facilities and nursing homes. Stimulating environments in which residents are active, involved and vibrant.
   
6. Elder Law Answers
   ElderLawAnswers provides families and their attorneys with legal information, not legal advice. Their information explains General Health and Other Helpful Websites legal concepts and principles which may or may not be applicable to a particular person's situation.
   
7. ElderWeb
   This is the Internet's oldest and perhaps largest elder care research site for healthcare professionals and family members, with thousands of on-site and off-site articles about legal, financial, medical and housing issues.
   
8. Esther Johnson Elderly Abuse Legal Defense Fund
   A families’ real life story of elderly abuse. This site provides resources to help elders who are being abused in any way.
   
9. International Guardianship Network
   The mission of IGN is to provide support, information and networking opportunities for guardians worldwide.
   
10. LawHelp.org
    Legal and lawyer referral information for people with low to medium incomes as well as support and information to attorneys and advocates serving them.
    
11. Legal Ace
    This site offers legal documents precisely prepared and shipped for one low, fixed price. They specialize in Business Law, Trademarks,Copyrights, Divorce & Family Law, and Wills & Estates.
    
12. Long Term Care Insurance
    Long-Term Care Quote is a national company that specializes in long-term care insurance. They are committed to providing unbiased information on long-term care, and only the best long-term care insurance plans. They have guides and discussion boards.
    
13. My Senior Care
    Find credible and up-to-date information on home health care agencies, assisted living facilities, hospice nursing, and more.
    
14. National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
    Their membership is comprised of attorneys who deal with legal issues affecting the elderly and disabled. Some of the issues members assist their clients with include: public benefits, probate and estate planning, guardianship/conservatorship, and health and long-term care planning.
    
15. National Association of Consumer Advocates
    The NACA represents consumers victimized by fraudulent, abusive and predatory business practice. They, also, promote justice for consumers and protect the rights of consumers.
    
16. National Center on Elder Abuse
    This site contains resources to help you find the assistance, publications, data, information, and answers you need to ensure that older Americans will live with dignity, integrity, independence, and without abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
    
17. National Consumer Law Center
    NCLC seeks to build economic security and family wealth for low-income and economically disadvantaged Americans. They promote access to quality financial services and protect family assets from unfair and exploitive transactions.
    
18. National Elder Law Foundation
    Information and links to Board Certified Elder Law Attorneys
    
19. National Guardianship Association
    The mission of NGA is to establish and promote a nationally recognized standard of excellence in guardianship.
    
20. National Senor Citizens Law Center
    The National Senior Citizens Law Center advocates before the courts, Congress and federal agencies to promote the independence and well-being of low-income elderly and disabled Americans.
    
21. Next Steps® Estate Planning and Eldercare Issues
    Retirement, health care beyond retirement and estate planning info
    
22. NOLO-self-help law center
    This web site offers articles, books, and other information on topics ranging from how to deal with employment issues to wills and power of attorney.
    
23. Nursing Home Abuse.net
    NursingHomeAbuse.net exists to raise awareness of the nursing home abuse epidemic, educate the public about its causes, help residents and families prevent abuse, and help victims cope with the consequences of nursing home abuse.
    
24. NursingHomeAbuseCenter.org
    Their site covers everything from signs of nursing home abuse to what steps to take if you suspect abuse. They also provide additional helpful information such as how to go about selecting and paying for a good nursing home.
    
25. Parent Your Parents
    The information on this site provides help in navigating through the difficult discussions, making tough decisions and encouraging you to plan for the challenges you and your aging parents may face. You may document your specific wishes, vital health information and important decisions, and make this information readily available to your family.
    
26. Patient-Doctor Communication by Home Instead Senior Care
    Patient-Doctor Communication by Home Instead Senior Care; This series of videos addresses how to help your parents communicate with their healthcare providers. These videos will introduce you to why communication is important, discuss legal healthcare related documents, and give you tips for how to have a good office visit.
    
27. Patient-Doctor Communication, Part 1
    Patient-Doctor Communication by Home Instead Senior Care; This series of videos addresses how to help your parents communicate with their healthcare providers. These videos will introduce you to why communication is important, discuss legal healthcare related documents, and give you tips for how to have a good office visit.
    
28. Patient-Doctor Communication, Part 2: Why it’s Important to Have Good Communication
    Why it’s Important to Have Good Communication by Home Instead Senior Care; Topics discussed include why good communication with your parent’s medical team (physical therapists, eye doctors, mental health counselors, pharmacists, chiropractors, etc.) is so important and how to make it happen, plus some reasons why your support might help with communications.
    
29. Patient-Doctor Communication, Part 3: Legal Documentation and Medical History
    Legal Documentation and Medical History by Home Instead Senior Care; This video covers the variety of documents you need or may wish to consider in order to help your loved one get the best care.These include legal medical forms and information, such as: “Authorization for Release of Information” form and HIPAA rules.
    
30. Patient-Doctor Communication, Part 4: Tips for You and the Healthcare Provider to Follow
    Tips for You and the Healthcare Provider to Follow by Home Instead Senior Care; This video covers how to prepare for a medical appointment with your senior and strategies to use during a visit with a medical provider. Tips in this video are how you can help your parent feel more confident in understanding the doctor and is being heard and respected by the practitioner.
    
31. U.S. Living Will Registry
    Learn how to create and register your living will and health care proxy. Private organization that electronically stores advance directives, organ donor information and emergency contact information, and makes them available to health care providers across the country 24 hours a day through an automated system.