Aging Well

Supportive Services

Active Options
A web site developed to help older adults, health care providers, information and assistance specialists, and others identify appropriate and accessible physical activity programs older adults, also helps physical activity program providers reach and recruit more older adults into their programs, and will help them identify gaps in the programs currently being offered in a community.

American Senior Fitness Association
A membership business that provides senior fitness education, certification, exercise, training, health and wellness resources for exercise instructors and program developers who serve older adults.

California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CAHNR)
A statewide non-profit advocacy organization serves as a model for improving the choices, care and quality of life for California’s long term care consumers, through direct advocacy, community education, legislation and litigation it has been CANHR’s goal to educate and support long term care consumers and advocates regarding the rights and remedies under the law, and to create a united voice for long term care reform and humane alternatives to institutionalization.

California Association for Adult Day Services
Each day center designs its own menu of services, but all programs provide age appropriate therapeutic activities, a nutritious meal, social services, and a customized plan of care. Transportation is provided or arranged. Most programs help families communicate with health professionals and assist with information and referral.

California Alliance of Information and Referral Services
The only statewide organization dedicated exclusively to serving the needs of professionals involved in the public access to human services, with an overall mission of enhancing the effectiveness of information and referral services through leadership, education, and support.

California Healthline
An electronic news service sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation addressing news, policy and opinion addressing health care affordability and access.

California Community Choices
An initiative of the California Health and Human Services agency on developing California’s long-term care infrastructure to increase access to home and community-based services and to help divert persons with disabilities and older adults from unnecessary institutionalization.

California Health Advocates
A non-profit organization dedicated to Medicare advocacy and education in California serves as a model for providing statewide technical assistance and training on Medicare and other health insurance coverage issues, including long term care insurance and sponsors a consumer information web site for Medicare beneficiaries and families.

Cash & Counseling
Offers a model for low-income (e.g., Medicaid) consumers who have disabilities more choices about how to get help at home. Specifically, it gives frail elders and adults with disabilities the option to manage a flexible budget and decide for themselves what mix of goods and services will best meet their personal care needs, giving participants the choice to use their budgets to hire their own personal care aides as well as purchase items or services, including home modifications that help them live independently.

Center for Successful Aging
Through its educational, research, and service activities, the CSU Fullerton Center promotes health and vitality, and the reduction of frailty and disability in later years.

Community Healthy Activities Model Program For Seniors (CHAMPS)
A University of California, San Francisco sponsored public health model program to promote increased lifetime physical activity levels of seniors.

Elderberry Institute
A Minnesota-based citizen-action model and resource offering the Living at Home/Block Nurse Program Model is the product of over 20 years of work with elders, their caregivers, home nursing and senior-serving organizations, and supporters in the community, and is based on the conviction that local volunteer governed entities can and do serve the needs of local people best, as opposed to top-down corporate or agency models. Also provides a guide on building community-based networks for addressing the delivery of local supportive services.

Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA)
A community-based nonprofit organization that addresses the needs of families and friends providing long-term care at home, and serves as a model for programs at national, state and local levels to support and sustain caregivers. FCA also provides link to local resource centers for caregivers and families.

Federal Trade Commission
This page on the federal website is designed to help identify reliable sources of information on important health and supportive services topics important to older consumers or family members, caregivers, or friends.

Home and Community Based Services Clearinghouse
Assists states and other entities in building systems that provide services and supports that reflect the needs and preferences of individuals of all ages with disabilities, and is intended to facilitate sharing information, tools, and practical resources across the many states and local entities that are reexamining and redesigning how they provide home and community-based services (HCBS) and support.

Independent Living Centers
A national nonprofit organization that serves as a strong advocacy voice on a wide range of national, state and local issues, and works to assure physical and programmatic access to housing, employment, transportation, communities, recreational facilities, and health and social services. Provides a directory of 500 ILCs serving throughout the United States.

Institute on Aging
A community-based, not-for-profit organization in San Francisco, Marin, and the Peninsula works to enhance the quality of life for adults as they age by enabling them to maintain their health, well-being, independence, and participation in the community. The Institute provides a model for a diverse community by developing and providing innovative programs in health, social service, creative arts, spiritual support, education, and research.

Just 1 Call
Provides a model for the community for a one-stop service number to connect with the help of experienced professionals and an extensive database of public and private organizations provide products and services to seniors and adults with disabilities.

National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers
Provides information on health and human services specialists who help families care for older relatives, while encouraging as much independence as possible.

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
A program of the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused on providing information on the prevention of falls among older adults.

National Clearinghouse for Long Term Care Information
This web site was developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide information and resources to help individuals and families plan for future long-term care (LTC) needs.

National Resource Center on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Aging
Located on the campus of Florida International University, the Center provides resources that promote active healthy aging by working to reduce nutrition risk among older adults, especially minorities with health disparities, and seeks to support quality of life, improve functionality, promote independence, and decrease early nursing home admissions and hospitalizations, through better nutrition.

Network of Care
A highly interactive, single information web site where consumers, community-based organizations and municipal government workers all can go to easily access a wide variety of important information on resources and services.

Stopfalls.org
A web site provided as a service of the Fall Prevention Center of Excellence created by the California Fall Prevention Consortium (CFPC), which is a public-private interdisciplinary partnership drawn from five organizations.

Live Well, Live Long
Health promotion strategies and materials developed by the American Society on Aging through a cooperative.

World Health Organization
This international nonprofit organization, as one of many worldwide health campaigns, seeks to raise awareness to the magnitude of older adult falls, intensify research efforts and encourage action towards prevention worldwide, and offers a report that includes international and regional perspectives and evidence-based recommendations for the prevention of falls among older adults.