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"The Center's mission is to make supportive housing and home modification a more integral component of successful aging, long-term care, preventive health, and the development of elder-friendly communities. The Center offers a vision for the future as well as practical strategies and materials for policymakers, practitioners, consumers, manufacturers, suppliers, and researchers." National Resource Center on Supportive Housing and Home Modification, Andrus Gerontology Center.

"The Center's mission is to make supportive housing and home modification a more integral component of successful aging, long-term care, preventive health, and the development of elder-friendly communities. The Center offers a vision for the future as well as practical strategies and materials for policymakers, practitioners, consumers, manufacturers, suppliers, and researchers." National Resource Center on Supportive Housing and Home Modification, Andrus Gerontology Center.

"This web site, a university-based and non-profit effort, is dedicated to promoting aging in place and independent living for persons of all ages and abilities. It offers training and education opportunities for professionals who wish to respond to the increasing demand for home modification services. It also serves as an information clearinghouse on home modification to equip professionals and consumers with a comprehensive inventory of resources such as a National Directory of Home Modification and Repair Resources."

Founded in 1999 to promote sustainable architectural and design solutions to global, social and humanitarian crises. Through competitions, workshops, educational forums, partnerships with aid organizations and other activities, we create opportunities for architects and designers from around the world to help communities. Find an architect.

"This is the official website of the Fall Prevention Center of Excellence. Our mission is to identify best practices in fall prevention and to help communities offer fall prevention programs to older people who are at risk of falling."

"The Disability Statistics Center produces and disseminates policy-relevant statistical information on the demographics and status of people with disabilities in American society. The Center's work focuses on how that status is changing over time with regard to employment, access to technology, health care, community-based services, and other aspects of independent living and participation in society. The Center is based at the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)."

"ElderCare Advocates is a team of geriatric care managers and other social work and health care professionals dedicated to keeping seniors healthy and independent and living in their homes as long as possible. We provide professional care planning and care supervision for seniors no matter what their health status or living environment. If you are a concerned son, daughter or other family member, we can help your elderly parent stay at home longer and more safely. If you are a social worker, physician, attorney or guardian, we can take the load from your shoulders of worrying about your patient's or client's day-to-day care. ElderCare Advocates' service area includes the Toledo, OH metropolitan area and the San Diego, CA metropolitan area. If your relative is not in these areas, the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers national site can help you find a local organization like ours who can help you."

"Seniorresource.com (SR) provides a comprehensive source of housing information and services for seniors and their caregivers. The mission of SR is to provide education services to the senior population. SR will serve as a resource and advocate in areas of importance to the well-being of the senior community, with primary attention given to housing, health, recreational, cultural, and counseling."

"The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for 140,000 members and affiliates who are speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States and internationally.

Vision: Making effective communication, a human right, accessible and achievable for all.

Mission: Empowering and supporting speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists by: 1)Advocating on behalf of persons with communication and related disorders; 2) Advancing communication science; and, 3) Promoting effective human communication."

"Bookshare® is an online library of digital books for people with print disabilities. It operates under an exception to U.S. copyright law which allows copyrighted digital books to be made available to people with qualifying disabilities. In addition, many publishers and authors have volunteered to provide Bookshare with access to their works. By requiring individuals to register as Members and provide a Proof of Disability, Bookshare ensures that only qualified individuals use the service.

Bookshare Members download books, textbooks and newspapers in a compressed, encrypted file. They then read the material using adaptive technology, typically software that reads the book aloud (text-to-speech) and/or displays the text of the book on a computer screen, or Braille access devices, such as refreshable Braille displays."

"VisionZone is the first live and virtual eye health resource designed to bridge the gap between disease, prevention, awareness and solutions. VisionZone Live and VisionZone.org connects the eye care, visually impaired and caretaker communities through a blended interactive experience. Now professionals, businesses, associations and consumers can relate both virtually and in-person to share their knowledge to combat eye diseases and low vision awareness together – no matter where they are."