Riferimenti Gophers esteri
Administration On
Aging
Emotional Support
Guide...
GriefNet
Parkinson
Administration on Aging (AoA)
This is the U.S. agency that administers the Older Americans Act. Their gopher is a gopher section within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gopher. On it one can find such things as The Eldercare Locator: where to turn for help for older persons, a directory of state agencies on aging, a telephone directory of AoA staff, a copy of their Statistical Profile of Older Americans, AoA supported resources for practitioners in the field of aging, etc.
The gopher address is: gopher.os.dhhs.gov. To get to the AoA gopher, select the following menu choices in sequence: DHHS Resources by Organization, and then Administration on Aging.
You can also go directly to the AoA gopher using World Wide Web. See that section of this list below.
Emotional Support Guide to Internet Resources for Physical Loss, Chronic Illness, and Bereavement
There are 4 major sections. Information about discussion groups/listservs and freenet resources for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's will be found in the 3rd major section: "chronic illness resources" where these are 2 of 21 different chronic illnesses. Compiled by Joanne Juhnke and Chris Powell at the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan.
The gopher address is: gopher.lib.umich.edu.
To get to the Emotional Support Guide, select the following menu choices in sequence: general reference resources (#6), internet guides and resources (#11), clearinghouse for subject-oriented internet resource guides (Umich) (#2), all guides (#3), emotional support... (#67).
You can also go directly to this gopher using World Wide Web. See that section of this list below.
GriefNet
Provides comprehensive support resource listings, a set of e-mail lists, a directory of professionals providing services in bereavement and loss, information on the Association for Death Education and Counseling, and a bibliography of grief and major loss publications including media resources. Currently the listings are from the U.S. and Canada, but information from other countries is also being added. There are currently e-mail lists for widowed persons, caregivers, thanatologists, and general information. The gopher was established by Rivendell Resources using grants and cash contributions.
The gopher address is: gopher.rivendell.org 9004
PARKINSN listserv
The text of the messages in this listserv's archive is available at the University of Toronto gopher.
The gopher address is: vm.utcc.utoronto.ca.
To get to these files select the following menu choices in sequence: listserv archives (#18) and then PARKINSN-PD-Info Exchange Network (#16)