• The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. An excellent search tool for finding a hospice, as well as guides on issues related to palliative care, including Medicare coverage and techniques for communicating end-of-life wishes.
     
  • Caring Connections. Contains of the consumer information from NHPCO and has state-by-state advance directive forms.
     
  • Hospice Foundation of America. Information on end-of-life issues, such as pain management
     
  • Elderweb. An eccentric site that includes the history of long-term care policy in America, census maps that show the concentration of people 60 and over, book reviews, updates on state laws affecting the elderly, and a dictionary of eldercare jargon.
     
  • Eldercare Online. This site has a home-made look and is difficult to navigate, but includes a wealth of original and imported information.
     
  • Caring.com. An all-in-one site with advice on caregiving, long-term care, talking with elders and insurance issues.
     
  • National Care Planning Council. A work in progress from a couple who "didn't have a life for five years" while caring for four elderly parents. Now a membership organization advocating for long-term care.
     
  • Third Age. Articles, expert interviews, quizzes and discussion boards for caregivers.
     
  • Elder Issues. Some interesting articles on caregiving. Primarily the site for a company marketing online medical records for elderly persons.
     
  • Aging Parents and Eldercare. A commercial site with free access to same checklists, worksheets and on-line assessment tools found elsewhere. For sale are products like wheelchairs and incontinence supplies.
     
  • KaiserEdu. An educational site from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Includes a variety of slide tutorials and podcasts on financial and policy issues related to long-term care.