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- A Gift to Your Family: Advance Directives: An advance directive is a written instruction that you make while you are mentally competent that states how you want your health care decisions to be made if you become incapacitated or cannot express your wishes. Advance directives guide your physician and other health care professionals, and relieve your family and friends from the burden of guessing what types of care and treatment you would want to receive.
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- ABA Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly: Established by the American Bar Association in 1978, the Commission has sought to improve legal services for the elderly, particularly through involvement of the private bar, and has explored legal issues surrounding long-term care, surrogate decision-making, individual rights, guardianship, housing, social security, elder abuse, and other public benefit programs. This site offers an archive of the commission's work, as well as news, elder law links and downloadable reports.
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- ADA Hot Links and Document Center: This high-quality site is an excellent source of Americans with Disabilities Act material, including ADA regulations and technical assistance manuals from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice. The site is maintained by Duncan C. Kinder, JD, under the sponsorship of the Great Lakes Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center and the ADA-OHIO Steering Committee.
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- Administration on Aging: An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Administration on Aging (AoA) maintains a nationwide network of agencies which develops and administers programs and services for older persons. The AoA site includes information on these programs and services as well as links to online resources for older individuals and their families, practitioners, professionals and researchers.
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- AoA: Statistics on the Aging Population: The Administration on Aging's website maintains a variety of statistical profiles of the aging population in the U.S. as well as links to related online resources.
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