Caregivers Resource Guide
Caregivers Resource Guide
- Library Catalog — Use Subject Headings to search for books on CAREGIVING and related areas of interest, such as:
- aged—home care
- aging parents
- aids (disease)—patients—home care
- alzheimer’s disease
- assisted suicide
- caregivers
- cerebrovascular disease
- chronically ill
- dementia
- elder abuse
- exercise therapy
- frail elderly
- home care services
- home nursing
- hospice care
- long-term care
- medicaid
- medicare
- multiple sclerosis
- nursing home care
- nursing home patients
- nursing homes
- old age
- older people
- retirement
- right to die
- terminal care
- wills
- Selected recent book titles with their call numbers to locate areas in the stacks are:
- Aids in America RA 643.86 .H86 2006
- Aging Prisoners–HV 9469 .A553 2003
- Always On Call RA 645.3 .A457 2004
- Caring For Our Elders—RC 954.3 .K65 2003
- Caring For The Dying—R 726.8 .C385 2003
- Caring For Your Parents (AARP) HQ 1063.6 .D45 2005
- Cerebral Palsy RJ 496 .C4 .M53 2006
- Chronic Diseases And Health Care RC 108 .M67 2006
- Denial Of Aging HQ 1064 .U5 .G45 2006
- Exercise For Frail Elders—RC 953.8 .E93 .B377 2003
- Exercise Therapy RM 725 .E95 2005
- Forced Exit—R 726 .S576 2003
- Home Or Nursing Home RA 645.3 .S25 2004
- Life After Stroke RC 388.5 .S783 2006
- Living Well With Parkinson’s RC 382 .A88 2005
- Maltreatment Of Patients In Nursing Homes RA 997 .H357 2006
- Medicare Matters RA 412.3 .C39 2005
- Multiple Sclerosis RC 377 .M88 2005
- My Mother’s Hip—RC 954.4 .M37 2004
- New Politics Of Old Age Policy HV 1461 .N76 2005
- Our Parents, Ourselves RA 564.8 .T87 2005
- Resilient Widowers—HQ 1058.5 .U5 .M68 2003
- Supporting the Caregiver In Dementia RC 521 .S87 2006
- Terminal Illness R 726.8 .T4646 2005
- Review Articles, which often have comprehensive bibliographies, are found in the:
- Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics—RC 952 .A1 .A56
- also search the Library Catalog for different titles of volumes and issues in the series, Clinics in Geriatric Medicine—RC 952 .A1 .C55
- Abstract/Indexing and full-text databases, used to find magazine, journal, and/or newspaper articles on CAREGIVING and related issues are accessed online from http://library.cortland.edu
- Academic Search Premier
- CINAHL
- Health Reference Center
- LexisNexis
- Medline/PubMed
- Physical Education Index
- PsychINFO
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- ScienceDirect
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- SocIndex
- SportDiscus
- WilsonOmniFile
- Current reference books (2nd floor) on Aging/Elder Care/Geriatrics include:
- Cambridge Handbook Of Age and Aging Ref. HQ 1061 .C315 2005
- Encyclopedia Of Aging— Ref. HQ 1061 .E534 2002 (4 vols.)
- Encyclopedia Of Elder Care— Ref. RC 954 .E53 2004
- Encyclopedia Of Multiple Sclerosis Ref. RC 377 .T875 2005
- Encyclopedia Of Parkinson’s Disease Ref. RC 382 .M774 2004
- Encyclopedia Of Senior Health and Well-Being— Ref. RA 777.6 .K357 2003
- Health, US, 2004 (trend tables 65 and older) Ref. RA 408 .A3 .H4357
- Stroke Sourcebook Ref. RC 388.5 .S8566 2003
- Magazines/Journals (3rd floor, Pers or electronic) on Aging/Geriatrics are:
- Ageing and Society
- Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (ScienceDirect)
- Educational Gerontology
- Experimental Gerontology (ScienceDirect)
- Geriatrics (CINAHL …)
- Geriatrics and Gerontology International (Academic Search Premier)
- Gerontologist
- International Journal of Aging & Human Development
- Journal of Aging and Physical Activity
- Journal of Aging Studies (ScienceDirect)
- Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology (Academic Search Pemier and SocINDEX)
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Academic Search Premier)
- Journals of Gerontology A & B
- Psychology and Aging
- Research on Aging
- Rejuvenation Research
- Selected Web Sites are:
- www.medicare.gov …official US Government site for people with Medicare…
- www.seniors.gov daily news, health, social security, retirement, travel, leisure
- www.aarp.org AARP
- www.aging.state.ny.us NYS Office for the Aging
- www.aging-research.org Alzheimer’s and Aging Research Center
- www.aoa.gov US Administration on Aging
- www.nia.nih.gov National Institute on Aging
- www.ncoa.org National Center on Aging
Prepared by Ellen Paterson, Sciences & Health Bibliographer, July 1995, revised, October 2004 & 2006