Finance Resources

AARP (Nationwide): AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization for people age 50 and over.  AARP is dedicated to enhancing quality of life for all as we age. We lead positive social change and deliver value to members through information, advocacy and service.  AARP also provides a wide range of unique benefits, special products, and services for our members.  These benefits include AARP Web site at www.aarp.org, "AARP The Magazine," the monthly "AARP Bulletin," and a Spanish-language newspaper, "Segunda Juventud."   Active in every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, AARP celebrates the attitude that age is just a number and life is what you make it.

BenefitsCheckUp Helps find programs for people ages 55 and over that may pay for some of their costs of prescription drugs, health care, utilities, and other essential items or services.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services web site.

Elder Web (Web Resource Only): This award-winning site is designed to be a research site for both professionals and family members looking for information on eldercare and long term care, and includes links to information on legal, financial, medical, and housing issues, as well as policy, research, and statistics. Thousands of other sites link to ElderWeb, and it has received numerous Web awards and press mentions.  ElderWeb has been used extensively by journalists and students doing research, and by professionals looking for Internet resources, as well as by family members looking for help for their elderly relatives.

Experience Corps (Nationwide): Experience Corps^® offers new adventures in service for Americans over 55. Now in 14 cities, including Chicago, Experience Corps works to solve serious social problems, beginning with literacy. Today more than 1,500 Corps members serve as tutors and mentors to children in urban public schools and after-school programs, where they help teach children to read and develop the confidence and skills to succeed in school and in life.  Check out www.experiencecorps.org for more information.

Federal Trade Commission Federal Trade Commission?s information on reverse mortgages.

Gray Hair Management (Deerfield, IL): Gray Hair Management's mission is to help executives find new positions. As part of their networking and career counseling activities, Gray Hair Management also identifies and works to provide solutions to current issues facing executives in transition. They've done just that with an innovative healthcare solution.

IHateFinancialPlanning.com Planning tools presented in an entertaining manner.

National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association

The Night Ministry (Chicago, IL): The Night Ministry serves homeless and runaway youth, working poor adults, uninsured and underinsured individuals seeking medical assistance, children who are unsupervised and need a place to gather in safety, and others who have "fallen through the cracks" of our social service systems. Through our core programs - Open Door Youth Shelter, Outreach and Health Ministry, Youth Shelter Network, and Community & Congregational Relations - staff members and volunteers continue to build supportive relationships that empower thousands of individuals to recognize their own self-worth and ability to meet their own needs. 

Positive Aging Resource Center (Web Resource Only):  Check out positiveaging.org for helpful information on maintaining emotional health, enjoying a healthy lifestyle, staying connected, making life changes, and caregiving. 

Seniors Connect (Cleveland, OH): North Coast SeniorsConnect isn't just a web site! Staff at the Cleveland Public Library are dedicated to helping you access information and connect to the tools and services that can enrich your lives.  If you have any questions, comments or suggestions regarding the web site or simply need assistance finding what you are looking for, please do not hesitate to contact us. 

SeniorResource.com Addresses a variety of senior issues including finance.

Social Security Administration

The Transition Network (New York, NY and Nationwide): In the last few decades, women have had the advantage of vastly greater career opportunities. Many of us, in fact, were pioneers in professions considered off limits to women. We are now reaching the age when we think about transitioning into the next phase of life, eager to make it financially secure, healthy, gratifying and productive. But many of us find the traditional models of retirement wanting. The Transition Network (TTN), recognized the dearth of alternatives and was formed to create new models to help women transition from the career and/or family phase to eagerly embrace the next stage.