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Online Help Resources :
This section of the Every Generation website offers people who are
aging, families and caregivers links to help in personal planning as well as
local and out-of-county programs and services. For researchers and representatives
of public, private and nonprofit entities, there are links to a variety of other
sites, including research reports on aging, national civic engagement programs,
and aging-friendly projects in communities across the nation.
Contra Costa CORD
Contra Costa CORD is
Contra Costa County's Online Resource Directory.
Civic
Ventures
Civic Ventures is a national nonprofit organization that works to expand the
contributions of older Americans to society, and to help transform the aging
of American society into a source of individual and social renewal.
Go to www.civicventures.org to learn more about:
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Experience Corps®, a groundbreaking program that engages
Americans 55-plus in vital public and community service. |
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The Next Chapter (Life Options) initiative which helps individuals
nearing retirement answer the question, "what's next?" by providing "directions
and connections" that enable them to clarify their vision, then develop
a practical plan for realizing that vision. |
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The book Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement
and Transform America by Civic Ventures founding director Marc Freedman. |
Benefits Checkup
Benefits Checkup is a fast, free and confidential service to help you find
programs for people age 55 and over that may pay for some of the costs of prescription
drugs, health care, utilities, and other essential items or services. Fill out
a simple questionnaire to find programs that can assist you or your loved ones.
Sponsored by the National Council on the Aging.
RespectAbility
RespectAbility is
a collaborative initiative designed to help community organizations and decision-makers
find ways to empower the growing population of older Americans to use their abilities,
their experience and their energy to help address community problems through
volunteer work and employment.
Other
Aging-friendly Projects
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Grand
Rapids, MI |
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Indianopolis,
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Jacksonville,
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Orange
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Life
Options B L U E P R I N T
Civic Ventures, Libraries for the Future and The Virginia G. Piper Charitable
Trust
NOTE: Civic Ventures changed the name of this initiative from "Life Options" to "Next
Chapter" to avoid confusion with an existing program that uses the Life
Options name.
Next Chapter (Life Options) programs help individuals nearing retirement answer
the question, "what's next?" by providing "directions and connections" that
enable them to clarify their vision, then develop a practical plan for realizing
that vision. Encouraging continued contributions to one's community is a vital
element of the Next Chapter initiative.
Life Options Blueprint was published in 2003 to guide the development of Next
Chapter (Life Options) initiatives in Maricopa County (Phoenix) Arizona. It identifies
the core and optional elements of Next Chapter programs and provides practical
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Contra
Costa programs & services
Contra Costa Network of Care
Contra Costa County's website, Network
of Care, is a comprehensive, Internet-based
resource for the aging and people with disabilities, as well as caregivers and
service providers. If you're looking for programs or services for someone 55
and over who lives in Contra Costa, this is your starting point.
Resources
in Aging
UC
Berkeley Resource Center on Aging Newsletter
Sign up for a free email newsletter from The University of California at
Berkeley Resource Center on Aging. This excellent resource contains an
abundance of aging-related information on meetings and events as well as
links to useful research sites. It is updated every two weeks and posted
on this site:
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~aging/ResourcesinAging.html
Research
AARP
California Commission on Aging
www.calaging.org
Harvard Kennedy School of Government Global Generations Policy Initiative
www.genpolicy.com - publishes "Harvard Generations Policy Journal"
Harvard School of Public Health-Metlife Foundation Initiative on Retirement
and Civic Engagement
www.hsph.harvard.edu/chc/reinventingaging
Intergenerational Strategies
www.igstrats.org
National Institute on Aging
www.nia.nih.gov
University of Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging
micda.psc.isr.umich.edu
Health and Retirement Study (Univ. of Michigan, 2004)
hrsonline.isr.umich.edu
University of Michigan Retirement Research Center
www.mrrc.isr.umich.edu/
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