Organizational resources: Part
II and III
Organizational resources:Part I
We at www.therubins.com realize how important state-of the-art information is to the elderly to be able to work in collaboration with their treating physicians or just to understand the changing nature of the basic and clinical sciences. Our goal is to provide as much of this information as is available to us. We also realize the importance of tapping into other legitimate sources. Hence, you will see many links to other sources in many of our articles as well as tables that list multiple resources.
(4/23/22)-Due to
illness, we at therubins fell behind in
responding to the many emails we get requesting a listing on the resource page.
We have now begun to make amends for the delay Thank you Karen Marquis for
taking the time to send us the following e-mail:
“Hello,
I'm writing you a
follow up email regarding your resources list in case you have missed the
previous email from me. I have stopped by your page with disability
students resources and got a great addition to your list.
I have recently taken part in creating a guide for Supporting Students
With Disabilities in Academic Environments to help them make their
student life more comfortable https://edubirdie.com/blog/teaching-students-with-disabilities
It includes:
· Academic Environment Impact
· Strategies for Working With Learners
With Disabilities
· Support Resources for Students
· Additional Resources for Teachers and Parents
All information is verified and up to date.
Feel free to read the guide and I would appreciate it if you decide to share it
and include it to your resources list http://www.therubins.com/aging/sites.htm!
Best regards,
Karen”
(5/4/21)-Thanks to Hannah Cox, we have fixed the
link in red below to “How to Avoid and Report Medicare Billing Fraud” We appreciate
your notifying us of any other broken links you may find on this page
(4/30/19)- Here’s an e-mail from Stacey Meloney of Best
Hearing Health “ just wanted to circle back and
make sure you got the below email.
Please let me know what you think!
- Stacey
Sent from my iPhone
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 4:20 PM "Stacey Melony" <stacey@besthearinghealth.com> wrote:
Hi Rubin,
I wanted to get in touch after noticing a broken link on your Resources page: http://therubins.com/aging/resources3.htm
It appears the 'Legal Services for the Elderly: Where and When to Start'
link is broken and I'm sure it would improve your user experience to fix or
replace it.
Hope that helps!
Also, is there any chance I could suggest a replacement link?
We just published an in-depth Guide to Hearing Health which
covers loud sounds that should be avoided, tips on protecting your hearing
health, and answers to the most pressing hearing-related questions.
You can see it here: https://besthearinghealth.com/hearing-health-guide/
I think it would be a great addition and perfect compliment
to your other resources and I'm sure your readers will find the guide to be
very useful and informative.
I'd love to hear what you think.
Thanks,
Stacey Melony, Senior Editor
Best Hearing Health
9960 Glades Rd
Boca Raton, FL 33434
Life's most persistent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' -
Martin Luther King”
(4/2/18)- Here’s another e-mail we received conainig a ling to a very useful site. Thanks you Amy!!
Hi Allan,
I came across your page here: http://www.therubins.com/
To help raise awareness on this important health issue, we
have created a page dedicated to seniors (https://www.
It contains information on medication safety, senior living
options, and more. Would you be able to include it on your list? It is our hope
that we can raise awareness on the potential risks associated with certain
medications so that seniors can live happy, healthy lives.
Thanks so much!
Sincerely,
Amy Elmayan
Awareness Advocate
The Recovery Village® | an Advanced Recovery Systems
Brand
(3/26/18)- We at therubins
have recently received many emails from individuals seeking to have their sites
added to this list. Here are 3 of them:
1. Harold / Allan
I commend your work at therubins.com, and hope you're off to a good
start in 2018. I was looking through your materials at http://www.therubins.com/aging/resources3.htm and
was curious if you might have room for an additional citation.
My name is Laura
Pearson, and I’m the chief editor at recallreport.org (Recall
Report). Recall Report is a
comprehensive online resource for information on mental health. Our information
is for all audiences, including seniors, spanning important topics like
substance abuse, depression/anxiety/suicide, prescription drug information; and
extending into treatment, rehabilitation and
recovery.
I notice you link to addictionresource.com at http://www.therubins.com/aging/resources3.htm,
and thought we'd be a nice complement. A link could mean a lot in making our
information more accessible. I'm very grateful for your time either way. If I
can answer questions, please don't hesitate to send them along.
All the very best
Laura Pearson
Chief Editor
RecallReport.org
877-850-7059
2.
Hi
Rubins,
I noticed you had a lot of helpful resources for
the elderly on your sites page but wanted to let you know that you have a
broken link: the Administration on Aging website. I thought you would like to
know given the level of detail of your current page.
I also wanted to suggest a new resource. Simply
Self Storage created a seniors guide to aging in place. It discusses the
benefits of growing old in your own home and how to spot safety hazards,
implement design changes and use technology age in place safely.
You can see it here. I thought it would be a great fit for your
collection.
Please let me know what you think!
Thanks--
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3. Hi The Rubins,
When I helped move my mom into her new retirement home, it
was not easy, and I spent many days sorting through her stuff and trying to
figure out the most effective way of doing so. I wish I had found this guide earlier on to help me with this tedious process!
(Did you know that about 72% of seniors in the U.S. are not
happy on their retirement home!). I recently read "The Senior Guide for Decluttering" and loved that it covered all the bases
including: Decluttering & Downsizing, Handling Paperwork, Showing
support, and what to do after the move.
I would love to see it on a well-respected website like The
Rubins! Are you open to adding it to your http://www.therubins.com/
Have a great day
Diana Jones
(7/13/17)- We recently received another email
from Bella Melton about some research that her student Katie was doing
concerning the harmful effect of tobacco smoke from those working with the
elderly: We would like to thank Bella and Katie for taking the time to write us
about it: Her other email is in the item dated 2/27/17
Bella Melton
Hello and good morning Allan,
It is Bella again; I really appreciated our previous
conversation. As you know, Summer break has quickly arrived, and that means for
me helping summer school students. Most of my students are currently working on
projects related to helping people quit smoking and raising awareness for drug
abuse
One of my students (Katie) told me that she would like to thank
you for your resources as it really helped on her project along with https://vapingdaily.com/support/elderly-health/.
We had talked before, and I was thinking of you when we found this resource. I
thought again it could be really useful for your site.
If you again decide to add the link let me know, my students are
so ecstatic to find out that they can actually help.
Kind Wishes
(7/5/17)-
We want to thank Carolina Gerard for informing us that the new link for
the elder abuse site for the National Council for Aging Care is now
http://www.aginginplace.org/
Here’s her email:
“Hi Rubin,
Could you help me out with this one quick change?
The old elder abuse site at ncea.aoa.gov has been taken offline and dead
Could you change it to the updated 2017 resource from
the National Council for Aging Care?
http://www.aginginplace.org/
Could you update the link on your page? -> http://www.therubins.com/
Sincerely,
Carolina Gerard
Outreach Intern
National Council for Aging Care
1530 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22209
Please note the new link for
the site in our item dated 11/16/13 below.
(2/27/17)- We recently received
the following email from Bella Melton and her student Anna concerning an
excellent site that they found with a vast amount of information about senior
citizens and the drug addiction problem. We want to thank both of them for
sharing this information with us, and in turn with our viewers.
It’s great that they took the
time and made the extra effort to help all of us.
“Good morning!
My name is Bella Melton, and I tutor middle
school and high school students. I am helping a student of mine with a project about
the growing problem of substance abuse among the elderly.
During our research, I found your website (http://www.therubins.com/aging/resources3.htm)
and I noticed a link to Health Issues in an Aging Population (http://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/AAG/aging.htm)
that was returning a “404 error”. I also have a website. I know how hard it is
to keep all the links updated, so I hope that you find my message helpful.
Anyway, thank you so much for posting
information for seniors on your website. For example, this article (http://www.newbeginningsdrugrehab.org/guide-to-addiction-prevention-for-seniors)
that my student Anna found valuable. Anna will surely use it for her project!
She also found this page and thought it would
be an excellent addition to your website:
https://addictionresource.com/addiction/substance-abuse-among-seniors/ It’s
an article on Addiction Resource that’s raising awareness for the reasons of
drug abuse among senior citizens.
If you do decide to add that link to your page,
please let me know! I would be excited to show Anna that we’re able to give
something back!
Best Wishes,”
(5/23/16)- The following is an
email we recently received from Elizabeth Turner about a site that deals with
drug rehab. We at therubins thanks Elizabeth for
taking the time to email us. :
“Hi there!
I spent longer than I intended
browsing through the elder-related links on your site and found several I'd not
seen before. I can only imagine the help and support you've given those in need
of this type of information. I also appreciate your inclusion of emails you
posted from site visitors either praising you for featuring such helpful
information and/or seeking your help to promote their own individual
cause/mission.
I used to work for a continuing
care retirement community in North Carolina, and I am going to share your Aging
Resources page with my former colleagues. I know they will appreciate the
articles sent in by site visitors!
On that note, my team and I
recently completed a new article, which I'm passing along to you for
consideration: http://www.drugrehab.org/the-45-warning-signs-of-prescription-drug-abuse/
If you feel it meets your requirements,
we'd be honored to have you include it on TheRubins.com. If you don't, we'd
love to know that too so that we can make changes to the piece to ensure it's
the most valuable resource it can be.
Keep up the great work --
you’ve really inspired me!
Best,
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Turner
eturner@drugrehab.org | drugrehab.org “
(6/21/14)- Here is an e-mail that
we recently received from Rebecca Muller, and although she requested that we
add her data to our aging/ sites list, we took the liberty of adding it onto
our resources site. We congratulate Rebecca, her son and her father for the
excellent work they have done. We also want to thank her for forwarding it on
to us and our viewers.
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ago) |
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Hi there,
I’m a volunteer researcher with EducatorLabs. We’ve become increasingly
concerned with the disconnect between our children and our parents, and we
believe this fuels abuse and neglect. As former educators, we are creating K-12
curriculum to empower our youth to become advocates for the health and safety of
their elders.
Do you have any resource suggestions for us? I looked on this page of your site
already: http://therubins.com/aging/sites.htm. Are
there any other pages you’d recommend? I’d be happy to hop on the phone if
you’d prefer!
I called upon my child and my father to help with this project. It has been a
true pleasure watching my 12-year-old son slowly and patiently teach my
92-year-old father how to use the internet. He’s now actually able to help us
research for this project!
We’re far from finished with the curriculum, but I’m so excited to be able to
share some of the resources that my son, father and I have found. I would love
to be able to tell them that you added some (or all!) of these to your site -
please let me know if you do so I can show them how their efforts have
benefited the internet at large.
Senior Care Resource Guide
http://www.homeadvisor.com/article.center.Senior-Care.94.html
Medicare Cost Overview
http://www.medicare.gov/your-medicare-costs/index.html
How to Avoid and Report Medicare
Billing Fraud
https://www.healthline.com/health/medicare/medicare-abuse
Planning Your Doctor Visit
http://nihseniorhealth.gov/talkingwithyourdoctor/planningyourdoctorvisit/01.html
Search by Insurance for Geriatric Care
http://www.zocdoc.com/insurances
Caregiving Support & Help
http://www.helpguide.org/elder/caring_for_caregivers.htm
Art Therapy for Seniors
http://www.arttherapyblog.com/c/art-therapy-seniors/
Medicare.gov: Websites for Seniors
http://www.medicare.gov/Contacts/staticpages/senior-websites.aspx
Swimming and Osteoporosis
http://blog.poolproducts.com/swimming-osteoporosis/
Geriatric Mental Health Foundation
http://www.gmhfonline.org/gmhf/
Guide to Addiction Prevention for Seniors
http://www.newbeginningsdrugrehab.org/guide-to-addiction-prevention-for-seniors/
Sincerely,
Rebecca
Rebecca Muller
r.muller@educatorlabs.org
EducatorLabs.org | Cultivating. Connecting. Curating.
EducatorLabs | 2054 Kildaire Farm Rd. #204 | Cary, NC
| 27518
P.S. If you’d rather not hear from me in the future, I do understand! Just send
me an email response with that information and I’ll make a note not to contact
you in the future.
(11/16/13)- Here is a recent e-mail that we received from Laura
Michaels on November 13. Many thanks to you Laura for taking the time to send
this valuable information on to us
Hi!
I’m working on an article about the fraud within the elderly community (which,
as I’m sure you’re aware, can happen in many different forms - insurance, home
repair, car repair, etc.). I took a bit of extra time to research and look
through your site. I noticed you have a great spot for resources (yay! a
researcher’s best friend!) -- however, one of the ones I tried to access
wouldn’t work for me.
I tried to click on the Elder Abuse Prevention link (http://www.elderabusecenter.org/), but was
taken to a dead page. I have a compatible resource in my own files, the
National Center on Elder Abuse, that I would recommend as the
replacement:
(Editor’s
note: Thanks to Carolina Gerard, here’s the new link-)
http://www.aginginplace.org/
Below, I’ve listed several other resources I’ve come across that I thought were
worthy of sharing. Do you think they would be appropriate to include on your
site for the benefit of your other visitors? I thought they would be, so wanted
to pass them along for your review and consideration:
Seniors’ Guide to Preventing Home Improvement Fraud
http://www.homeadvisor.com/article.show.Preventing-Home-Improvement-Fraud.17322.html
Prevent Medicare Fraud: How To Avoid Abuse and Medical Billing Fraud
http://www.ehealthmedicare.com/about-medicare/avoiding-fraud/
Elder Abuse Prevention Guide
http://www.cdc.gov/features/elderabuse/
I hope this information is helpful to you - I feel it’s the least I can do to
thank you for maintaining a great site that you’ve made available for others to
benefit from.
Thanks so much - I hope you have a great day!
Laura
Laura Michaels
laura@assistedlivingtoday.com
P.S. If you’d rather not receive emails from me in the future about other dead
links on your site, please do not hesitate to let me know. Just let me know
that in an email response.
P.P.S. if you have an interest in seeing my resource guide
once it’s complete, let me know - I’d love to share!
35 Bradford Road | Wellesley, Massachusetts | 02481
(2/5/11)- Here's an email that
we recently received from Tracy Curtis, of ViriginiaWebMedia.com about Tim
Moore's "The Social Security Disability Resource Center" (SSRDC.com)
from Tracy Curtis:
"Original Message -----
From: Tracy@VirginiaWebMedia.com "mailto: Tracy@VirginiaWebMedia.com"
To: hrubin12@nyc.rr.com
Sunday, January 30, 2011 9:06 PM Website Feedback for The Rubins
I'd like to nominate an
addition to the resource section of your site: www.therubins.com/resource/index.htm
The Social Security and Disability Resource Center website (SSDRC.com) provides
a detailed overview of how the federal disability system works (social security
disability and SSI) and also provides answers to many questions that applicants
typically have, but often have trouble finding answers to. For the most part,
the site is based on the author's personal experience as a former disability-medicaid caseworker, and also as a former disability
examiner for the social security administration. Hopefully, the information
will be helpful to some of your site's visitors. Here is a link to the site www.ssdrc.com
Thanks in advance for considering adding a link to SSDRC on your site.
Tracy Curtis"
Here is what the Social
Security Disability Resource Center is about:
"The Social security
disability resource center provides information on the federal disability
benefit programs, SSD (social security disability, mandated under title II of
the social security act) and SSI (supplemental security income, mandated under
title 16), in addition to answering questions about social security retirement
benefits and providing resource links on topics such as medicare.
The SSDRC is published, edited, and maintained by Tim Moore, a former
disability claims examiner for the social security administration's disability
determination services (DDS), as well as a former caseworker with a background
in many federal assistance programs, including medicaid
for disabled adults."
(11/29/10)- Here is another
email that we at therubins recently
received from Nathan Grimm, Program Manager- SR Education Group in which he
refers to an excellent article that was recently published to help gain more
knowledge about Alzheimer's Disease and the resources available for family and firends-
Friday, November 19, 2010 2:54
PM
Subject Info for Alzheimer
Patients
Dear Harold Rubin, MS, ABD, CRC
I really appreciate your
collection of resources on the TheRubins.com website, http://www.therubins.com/aging/resources3.htm
. It is great that as a site for senior citizens and those who care about them,
you provide information on topics pertinent to the elderly so that readers will
be able to make more informed decisions about the problems associated with the
elderly.
We just published an article
that has all the best information for people who have or know someone with
Alzheimer's, http://www.guidetohealthcareschools.com/library/alzheimers-patient
The article would be a valuable
addition to your information. I hope it helps everyone who uses your site to
research Alzheimer's.
Sincerely,
Nathan Grimm
Program Manager - SR Education Group
Twitter" @n8ngrimm
(425) 605-8898 123
Lake Street South Suite B-1
Kirkland, WA 98033
(7/3/08)-A source for financial
assistance in cases of high-cost cancer therapies is the Patient Advocate
Foundation (www.patientadvocate.org
or 800-532-5274) whose mission is "to safeguard patients through effective
medication assuring access to care, maintenance of employment and preservation
of their financial stability relative to their diagnosis of life-threatening or
debilitating diseases."
(3/10/07)- Countless
individuals suffer from sleep disorders. We at therubins
received an email from the Webmaster at Sleep Disorders Guide, took a look at
the site, and found that it might be helpful to any or our viewers with this
type of problem.
Title: Sleep Apnea - Sleep
Disorders Guide
Url: http://www.sleepdisordersguide.com/sleepapnea
Description: A comprehensive information guide about sleep disorders.
Descriptions, symptoms, causes, treatments of various sleep disorders like
sleep apnea, insomnia, snoring, restless legs and narcolepsy.
(2/04/07)- Wayne Lundy of the
Better Information Group emailed therubins
about the publication of its most recent guide, Aging with a Plan. The guide
is: "A resource for families to plan for medical, financial, legal and
emotional issues they will be facing with an aging family member."
(10/2/06)- We recently received
an email from one of our viewers about an article she and David Petersen had
written concerning a "handicapped accessible bathroom" for her
grandparents. We visited the site and found it to be an excellent one. The
following is a copy of the email along with a link to the site. We think you
will find it quite useful for its purpose:
From: Becca
Joyce
To: hrubin12@nyc.rr.com
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:33 PM
Subject: Accessible living
Hello,
I am a fan of your website and the support you provide for
the elderly. In the process of designing a handicapped accessible bathroom
for my grandparents, I decided to write an article with some ideas and pictures
of the accessible bathroom ideas I found. I am hoping that you will post a link to my
article on your website: http://www.wasauna.com/handicap-bathroom.html
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Becca Joyce
beccaj@kpxtractors.com
(10/17/05)- One of our readers
wrote with a suggestion that we try to focus some of our tables on one area of
information to make it easier for our readers to find that information.
Following through on this suggestion, we are starting a whole series of tables
that will appear from time-to-time under specific headings that will pull
together many of the disparate resources we have listed in the articles on our
web site. We feel quite comfortable in recommending these sites. If any of our
readers knows of some reason the site should not be included in our list, as
well as sites that should be included, please let us know.
A list of health information resources;
|
Resources |
Description |
Web site |
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PubMed/MEDLINE |
References
including abstracts from thousands of biomedical journals |
|
|
Better
Information Group |
Planning
for an aging family member |
|
|
PubMed
Central |
Free
digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature |
|
|
Clinicaltrials.gov |
Patient
studies for drugs and treatment |
|
|
MedlinePlus |
Health
information for patients, families, and health care practitioners |
|
|
TOXNET |
Network
of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and environmental health |
|
|
Unified
Medical Language System |
Electronic
knowledge sources and associated lexical programs |
|
|
National
Center for Biotechnology Information |
Databases
and tools for data mining, including BLAST and the Molecular Modeling
Database |
|
|
GenBank |
An
annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences |
|
|
Online
Mendelian Inheritance in Man |
Catalog
of human genes and genetic disorders |
|
|
Cancer
Genome Anatomy Project |
Generates
the information and technological tools needed to decipher the molecular
anatomy of the cancer cell |
|
Organization |
Address |
Telephone |
Email |
Description |
|
USDA
Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) |
10301
Baltimore Ave., Room 105, Beltsville, MD 20705-2351 |
1-301-504-5719 |
The
FNIC website provides over 2000 links to current and reliable nutrition
resources. |
|
|
Aging
with Dignity |
PO
Box 1661, Tallahassee, FL 32302-1661 |
1-888-594-7437 |
This
group provides an easy-to-read advance care planning document called Five
Wishes |
|
|
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
|
|
The
CDC has resources on nutrition and physical activity for older adults |
|
|
Eldercare
Locator |
|
1-800-677-1116 |
The
Eldercare Locator offers referrals to information on services to seniors. |
|
|
Getting
Around Safe & Sound and Granddriver |
4301
Wilson Boulevard, Suite 400, Arlington, VA 22203 |
1-703-522-4200 |
The
American association of Motor Vehicle Administrators sponsors two programs
designed to educate aging drivers and their caregivers. |
|
|
Medicare
Rights Center |
520
8th Ave NY, NY 10018 |
1-212-560-5400 |
Information
on financial assistance |
|
|
National
Center on Elder Care |
1201
15th St., suite 350, Washington, DC 20005-2842 |
1-202-898-2586 |
This
consortium of organizations provides information about and conducts research
on elder abuse. |
|
|
National
Council on Aging |
|
|
The
council online resource offers a searchable list of programs that can help
with health care costs. |
|
|
National
Hospice and Palliative Care Organization |
1700
Diagonal Road, suite 625, Alexandria, VA 22314 |
1-703-647-8508 1-800-658-8898 |
Information
on end-of-life care Many of the resources and publications that were
available on the Partnership for Caring are now on this site. |
|
|
National
Institute of Health |
|
|
Information
about federally and privately supported clinical research |
|
|
National
Institute on Aging (NIA) |
Information
Center, PO Box 8057, Gaithersberg, MD 20898 |
1-800-222-2225 TTY: 1-800-222-4225 |
The
NIA offers a free booklet showing older adults how to start and stick to
effective program of stretching, balance, and strength-training exercises |
|
|
Nursing
Home Compare |
|
|
Medicare
provides an online resource with detailed information about the past
performance of every Medicare certified nursing home in the country. |
|
|
Patient
Advocate Foundation |
|
1-800
532 5274 |
Mission
is "to safeguard patients through effective medication assuring access
to care, maintenance of employment and preservation of their financial
stability relative to their diagnosis of life-threatening or debilitating
diseases." |
|
|
Pharmaceutical
Research And Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) |
1100
Fifteen St. NW, Washington, DC 20005 |
1-202-835-3400 |
Many
pharmaceutical companies offer reduced medication fees for patients who meet
income requirements and other criteria. PhRMA has compiled the Directory of
Prescription Drug Patient Assistance Programs |
|
|
Sexuality
Information and Education Council of US |
130
West 42nd St. suite 350, NY, NY 10036-7802 |
1-212-819-9770 |
This
organization publishes an annotated bibliography, Sexuality in Middle and
Later Life. |
|
|
The
Simon Foundation for Incontinence |
Box
835-F, Wilmette, IL 60091 |
1-800-237-4666 |
The
Foundation provides information about cure, treatment, and management
techniques for incontinence |
|
|
The
Social Security Disability Resource Center |
|
|
Tim
Moore supplies answers to questions on SSI, SSD and social security
retirement benefits |
|
|
Family
Caregiver Alliance |
690
Market St., suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94104 |
1-415-434-3388 |
The
Alliance offers programs to support and sustain caregivers |
|
|
Alzheimer’s
Disease Education and Referral Center (ADEAR) |
PO
Box 8250, Silver Spring, MD 20907-8250 |
1-800-438-4380 |
NIA
funds ADEAR to provide information, publications, referrals, a health
information database, and a clinical trials database for the public and
health care professionals |
FOR AN INFORMATIVE AND PERSONAL ARTICLE ON PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS WHEN SELECTING A NURSING HOME SEE OUR ARTICLE "HOW TO SELECT A NURSING HOME".
By
Harold Rubin, MS. ARD, CRC, Guest Lecturer
updated April 23, 2022
e-mail: hrubin12@nyc.rr.com or allanrubin4@gmail.com