Aging in Place Links

AARP
The nation's largest organization for those 50-plus, offers an excellent set of resources on housing choices for seniors.

AdvantAge Initiative
This initiative helps communities facilitate Aging in Place through a comprehensive survey measuring how well older adults are faring in key areas including housing.

Center for Universal Design
A national information, technical assistance, and research center that evaluates, develops, and promotes accessible and universal design in housing, commercial and public facilities, outdoor environments, and products.

Civic Ventures
This national organization focuses on reframing the debate about aging in America and redefining aging as a process of social and individual renewal.

Concrete Change
An organization advocating accessible home design for people with disabilities.

Meals on Wheels Association of America

Meals on Wheels provides nutritional meals to shut-ins or ailing seniors with low incomes

MetLife Foundation
The MetLife Foundation was established in 1976 by MetLife to carry on its long-standing tradition of corporate contributions and community involvement. Grants support health, education, civic and cultural programs. In aging, the Foundation funds programs that promote healthy aging and address issues of caregiving, intergenerational activities, mental fitness, and volunteerism. The Foundation also supports research on Alzheimer's disease through its Awards for Medical Research program. More information about the Foundation is available at www.metlife.org.

National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a)
Is the leading voice on aging issues for Area Agencies on Aging across the country and a champion for Title VI-Native American aging programs in our nation's capital. Through its presence in Washington, DC, n4a advocates on behalf of the local aging agencies to ensure that needed resources and support services are available to older Americans and their caregivers.

Older Americans 2000: Key Indicators of Well-Being
This federal interagency forum provides a wide range of useful data about older Americans.

Partners for Livable Communities

The organization is developing a "Blueprint for Change" that will imagine what an elder-friendly community might be — what it would look like, what services does it need, how the elderly can be involved in the planning, what special educational, recreational and cultural opportunities are needed, how cross-generational contacts can be made, what programs are making the elderly safe and secure.

Rebuilding Together
Formerly known as “Christmas in April,” Rebuilding Together preserves and revitalizes houses and communities, assuring that low-income homeowners, particularly those who are elderly and disabled and families with children, live in warmth, safety and independence.

Senior Resource

The organization offers a variety of resources on the topic, including "Pointers For Hiring Personal Care Help."