Additional Resources
AgeNet Eldercare Network
The AgeNet website has resources on the following topics: health, drugs, legal, insurance, financial, caregiving, housing, and shopping.
Contact information:
www.agenet.com
CARELINKUSA®
CARELINKUSA® is a tool for health care professionals and consumers seeking information and referrals to facilities such as nursing homes and assisted living environments in and around Minnesota. With this valuable tool set, you can search for providers based on location and/or special services provided.
Contact information:
www.carelinkusa.com
Caretaker Gazette, The
This newsletter, published bi-monthly, contains property caretaking and housesitting opportunities. Each issue has 130+ caretaking/housesitting positions throughout the United States and overseas. As a property caretaker you live rent free.
Contact information:
www.caretaker.org
Center for Universal Design, The
The Center for Universal Design is part of the Design School at North Carolina State University. It is a national research, information, and technical assistance center that evaluates, develops, and promotes universal design in housing, public and commercial facilities, and related products. The website contains resource, consulting services, education and training links.
Contact information:
www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/
Cohousing Network, The
Cohousing communities that balance the traditional advantages of home ownership with the benefits of shared common facilities and ongoing connections with your neighbors.
Contact information:
www.cohousing.org
Community Action of Minneapolis
This organization helps with energy assistance, weatherization, and more for low-income people.
Contact information:
www.campls.org/
Consumer's Guide to Home Adaptation
This book is a guide to adapting a home to fit the needs of the disabled. It includes a section on evaluating individual needs and the home, a planning worksheet, how to choose a contractor, how to install or modify existing structures, and a resource section. A Consumer's Guide to Home Adaptation. (1996). Boston, MA: Adaptive Environments Center.
Contact information:
www.adaptiveenvironments.org
Does Your Home Meet Your Needs?
An AARP safety checklist.
Contact information:
www.aarp.org/universalhome/checklist.html
Habitat for Humanity
Organizes groups of volunteer individuals who build new homes for low-income families.
Contact information:
www.tchabitat.org
Home Modifications Resource Guide, The
The Home Modifications Resource Guide features resources for professionals interested in home modification: an extensive annotated bibliography, an inventory of pertinent organizations and agencies and their utility, and a list of related journals and newsletters, websites, and assessment instruments. Lists publications, organizations, and websites on home modification and adaptive equipment. It is available from the National Resource and Policy Center on Housing and Long Term Care.
Contact information:
www.homemods.org/library/hm_res_gd_03.pdf
Key to Choice for Seniors: Open the Door to Services
“A Key to Choice for Seniors: Open the Door to Services” is published by the East Metro Seniors Agenda for Independent Living (SAIL). It includes several assessment tools for evaluating your personal values, financial needs, housing situation, and more. Click on “Lifestyle Needs Self Assessment Tool” for this guide. Available online in PDF format.
Contact information:
www.tcaging.org/downloads/keytochoice.pdf
LongTermCareLiving.com
Sponsored by the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living, LongTermCareLiving.com provides consumers with needed information on nursing homes, assisted living/residential care, and other types of long-term care.
Learn how to:
Find and select a nursing home or assisted living facility;
Prepare yourself and your family for the transition to long-term care;
Write an advance directive, making sure your wishes are known;
Find Medicare Part Resources; and
Pay for long-term care.
Contact information:
www.longtermcareliving.com/
Minnesota Association of Centers for Independent Living
This website is a link to information about independent living services provided by Minnesota's 8 Centers for Independent Living (MACIL). The site also links to worldwide disability-related information.
Contact information:
www.macil.org
Minnesota Health & Housing Alliance
This organization is a membership association of housing and nursing home providers. They are involved with advocacy on consumers' behalf and have educational resources on the website.
Contact information:
www.mhha.com/
MinnesotaHelp.Info
MinnesotaHelp.info is an online directory of services designed to help people in Minnesota find human services, information and referral, financial assistance, and other forms of help. It is rich in resource information for seniors and their caregivers; people with disabilities and their caregivers; parents and families; and low income people.
Contact information:
www.minnesotahelp.info
Office of Ombudsman for Long Term Care
Provide advocacy services to individuals and/or families or representatives living in Long Term Care Settings to include nursing homes, assisted living, adult foster care, home care, adult day care, etc. Provide education and work for meaningful reform in Long Term Care. Consumer driven. Promote individualized care, autonomy and self determination.
Contact information:
www.mnaging.org/admin/ooom.htm
Senior Housing Directory
The Senior Housing Directory lists housing and other helpful housing-related information for seniors in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, metro area.
Contact information:
www.seniorhousingdirectory.com.
Senior LinkAge Line®
Provides information and assistance on a wide variety of community services available to older adults and their families via telephone. The Senior LinkAge Line® is a program of the Minnesota Board on Aging and the Area Agencies on Aging.
Contact information:
800-333-2433
www.mnaging.org/advisor/SLL.htm