Arizona Healthy Aging (A-HA)

Resource Library for Older Adults, Families and Friends

What is Aging?

• Healthy Aging Lab: University of Arizona

Community Resource Guide:

• Community Care Locator Center
• Older Adults Help Line
• Help Line
• Aging & Disability
• Seasoned Generation Program

Search Engines for Older Adults:

• Health Finder
  A guide to reliable health information from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Medline: Seniors' Health Issues
  U.S. National Institutes of Health & National Library offers Medline for Seniors' Health Issues

State Government

• Aging and Adult Administration
  Department of Economic Security
• Arizona Area Agencies on Aging (4 A’s)
• Arizona Links
  AZ Links is Arizona’s Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC), which was created to help Arizona seniors, people with disabilities, caregivers and family members locate resources and services that meet their needs.
• Contracted Long Term Care Health Plans
  Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
• Governor's Advisory Council on Aging
• Licensing Services
  Arizona Department of Health Services

Federal Government

• National Institute of Health (NIH)
• National Institutes of Health (CAM)
• Administration on Aging
  Department of Health and Human Services 
• Health Information for Older Adults
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Healthy Aging 
• Medicare
  Medicare provides comparisons for health plans, prescription drug coverage and nursing home information
• Social Security Administration

Vital Aging

• American Association of Retired Persons
• Staying Healthy at 50+
• The National Council on Aging 
• Vital Aging Network

Health Promotion & Aging

• Symptom Checker
• Patient Education Videos
• Arizona Alzheimer's Association 
• Benefits Check Up
  A service of the National Council on the Aging
• International Council on Active Aging
• National Council on Aging
• Bone Builders
  University of Arizona College of Public Health
• Osteoporosis
• Western Arizona Council of Governments (Older Adults Services)
• Age Well, Living Well
  National Office of Women's Health, USDHHS
• American Cancer Society
• American Heart Association
• American Stroke Association