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Ageing

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A Better Home Life: A code of practice for residential and nursing home care. Includes principles of good practice, assessment prior to care, life in the home, management, administration and legal issues.
Author: Centre for Policy on Ageing
Subjects: ageing, social services
DeweyClass: 305.26
Resource type: documents
Age Concern England: Also known as The National Council on Ageing, Age Concern aims to improve the quality of life for the UK's growing population of elderly people. Indexes to statistics, projects, news, fundraising and grant information are provided.
Author: Age Concern England
Subjects: ageing, social services
DeweyClass: 362.6
Resource type: index, institution
Age Well: Educational guide giving facts and advice on how to age healthily and remain active, and how best to prevent the onset of age-related diseases.
Author: AgeWell Organisation
Subjects: ageing
DeweyClass: 613.0438
Resource type: documents
AgeInfo: An information service about old age and ageing. Offers a searchable bibliographic database of books, articles and reports from the specialist collection on social gerontology held at the Centre, and additional databases held in the US and the Netherlands.
Author: Centre for Policy on Ageing
Subjects: ageing
DeweyClass: 362.6
Resource type: bibliography, documents
Alzheimer's Disease Center: Provides research, diagnosis and family support to Alzheimer's disease patients and their families in Northern California, with online education and information for families.
Author: University of California Davis
Subjects: ageing, alzheimer's disease
DeweyClass: 616.8
Resource type: documents
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine: Department concentrating on health promotion through various means. Includes links to information on occupational and environmental health, violence prevention, ageing and health and Alzheimer's disease.
Author: University of California Davis
Subjects: ageing, environmental health, epidemiology, health promotion, occupational health and safety, preventive medicine
DeweyClass: 614.4
Resource type: index
Help the Aged: Help the Aged provides practical support to help older people live independent lives. News, contact information, services and issues such as homelessness, government initiatives and long term care descriptions are included.
Author: Help the Aged
Subjects: ageing, homelessness
DeweyClass: 362.6
Resource type: documents
Intute: social sciences - older people: Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources about ageing and the elderly.
Author: Intute
Subjects: ageing
DeweyClass: 362.6
Resource type: index
LewyNet: For workers, patients, and carers interested in dementia with LewyBodies, which, in many hospitals, is the second most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer's disease. The name for the disease comes from the presence of abnormal lumps which develop inside nerve cells called Lewy bodies.
Author: Lowe, Jim
Subjects: ageing, dementia
DeweyClass: 616.8
Resource type: documents
National Institute on Aging: A biomedical research agency of the United States government aiming to promote healthy ageing. Health information such as booklets, factsheets and brochures are offered, and announcements, press releases, appointments, upcoming events and employment opportunities are included.
Author: National Institutes of Health
Subjects: ageing
DeweyClass: 362.6
Resource type: documents
Neuropsychology Central: Documents describing the importance of neuropsychology as a science of brain and behaviour, for professionals and others. Includes sections on brain imaging, cognitive, developmental, and geriatric neuropsychology.
Author: Browndyke, Jeffrey
Subjects: ageing, brain, medical imaging, neuroscience
DeweyClass: 616.8
Resource type: documents
New Abstracts and Papers in Sleep: Archive of articles relating to sleep, with topics including ageing, biological rhythm, dreaming, neurophysiology, physiology, and sleep disorders.
Author: UCLA Brain Information Service
Subjects: ageing, consciousness, sleep
DeweyClass: 154.6
Resource type: article collection
Older People's Services: This resource is intended primarily for local NHS organisations and local councils to help in the implementation of the national service framework (NSF) for older people. Also of use to older people and their carers.
Author: Department of Health
Subjects: ageing, health promotion
DeweyClass: 613.043
Resource type: service
Religion, Aging, and Spirituality: An Online Annotated Bibliography: Presents a bibliography of articles, books, and dissertations relating to spiritual and religious aspects of ageing. Headings include church and synagogue, ethics, and death and dying.
Author: Simmons, Henry C.
Subjects: ageing, religious studies
DeweyClass: 362.6
Resource type: bibliography
Self Help and Psychology Magazine Article Library: Collection of articles on numerous topics relevant to mental health and wellbeing, with an emphasis on self help.
Author: Pioneer Development Resources
Subjects: ageing, alcohol, applied psychology, depression, mental health improvement
DeweyClass: 616.8
Resource type: articles
Silver Surfers: Senior Friendly Sites: Resources of interest to senior citizens covering organisations such as Age Concern and Help the Aged, aches and pains, medicine and health, holiday and travel, and hobbies and interests.
Author: Milne, Sylvia
Subjects: ageing
DeweyClass: 362.6
Resource type: index
TelDB: GenLink Multimedia Telomere Resource: Telomeres are the physical ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes. They are specialised nucleoprotein complexes that have important functions, primarily in the protection, replication, and stabilisation of the chromosome ends. TelDB is a telomere information centre which provides new information about telomeric and subtelomeric regions of chromosomes and telomere literature references, including a user interface to the searchable telomere literature database. TelDB includes over 1100 telomere related citations from 200 journals, covering over 80 species.
Author: Washington University School of Medicine
Subjects: ageing, cell biology, genetics research
DeweyClass: 576
Resource type: bibliography
Whole Brain Atlas: Extensive collection of images of the normal brain, ageing, and various diseases affecting the brain.
Author: Johnson, Keith A. & Becker, J. Alex
Subjects: ageing, brain, medical imaging
DeweyClass: 612.82
Resource type: images