| Ageing and A Guide - Resources and Review
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| 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.
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Provides research, diagnosis and family support to Alzheimer's disease patients and their families in Northern California, with online education and information for families.
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Extensive collection of images of the normal brain, ageing, and various diseases affecting the brain.
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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.
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Collection of articles on numerous topics relevant to mental health and wellbeing, with an emphasis on self help.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Set of links to journals relevant to geriatrics and gerontology. Some have only subscription information online, others have tables of contents, abstracts or full text.
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Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to geriatrics.
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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.
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Archive of articles relating to sleep, with topics including ageing, biological rhythm, dreaming, neurophysiology, physiology, and sleep disorders.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources about ageing and the elderly.
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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.
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