Health 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.

Awakenings: Simple Solutions for Life's Problems (Web Resource Only): An "awakening" is a moment of clarity in which a new insight or understanding is gained. With this new awareness the experience of life is seen differently, and new possibilities are opened. Changes in patterns of thought, emotions, and behavior occur. An awakening allows the possibility of growth to new levels of psychological and spiritual maturity.

Chicago Department on Aging (Chicago, IL): The Chicago Department on Aging is creating options for an aging society.  We do this by: supporting older persons to live independently in their own communities and homes for as long as possible; ensuring that those who reside in institutions are treated with dignity and care; and ensuring that older persons have access to full and accurate information to participate in public policy.

Community Resource Network (Chicago, IL): To strengthen communities throughout metropolitan Chicago by providing the central resource network to: Inform and educate the community regarding health and human services and mobilize people and resources through community involvement.

Council for Jewish Elderly (Chicago, IL): Council for Jewish Elderly has at its core a deep and abiding commitment to Jewish communal values and the dignity of the older person. Through dedication to quality programs and services for all older people and their families, CJE acknowledges respect for the individuality and independence of each person it serves.

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.

The Foley Center for the Study of Lives (Evanston, IL): Funded by a grant from the Foley Family Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Foley Center for the Study of Lives is an interdisciplinary research project committed to studying psychological and social development in the adult years.  Bringing together perspectives from personality psychology, life-course developmental research, qualitative sociology, and studies of biography and culture, the Foley Center sponsors the research program developed by Professor Dan McAdams and his students and collaborators in the Human Development and Social Policy Ph.D. program and in the Psychology Department at Northwestern University. The researchers associated with the Foley Center focus considerable attention on such prosocial aspects of adult development as generativity, social commitment, altruism, life-long learning, and the development of self-understanding across the adult life course.