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Links to the Contractors State License Board at www.cslb.ca.gov
What
You Should Know Before You Hire a Contractor
A
Consumer Guide to Home Improvements Contracts
After
a Disaster Don't Get Scammed!
10
Tips for Making Sure Your Contractor Measures Up
Choosing
the Right Landscaper
Nonprofit Family
Caregiver Alliance, 800-4458106, has information at www.caregiver.org
about publicly funded services.
Network of Care
is sponsored by a grant from the California Department of Aging,
in partnership with the Sacramento County Department of Health and
Human Service: sacramento.networkofcare.org
Assistance in
locating retirement communities, assisted living care, nursing homes,
etc., www.newlifestyles.com
California Advocates
for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), www.canhr.org
Government sponsored
site for information on benefits, health, consumer protection and
education for seniors, www.seniors.gov
Medicare and
You; official Medicare guide (large PDF file):
www.medicare.gov/publications/pubs/pdf/10050.pdf
Medline Plus,
a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National
Institutes of Health:
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicare.html
Agencies
AARP, www.aarp.org
American
Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA), www.aahsa.org
Center
for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), www.cms.hhs.gov
Gerontological
Society of America, www.geron.org
Federal
Administration on Aging (AOA), www.aoa.dhhs.gov
National
Alzheimer's Association, www.alz.org.
The 24-hour help line is 800-272-3900.
National
Association for Home Care & Hospice, www.nahc.org
National
Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers, www.caremanager.org
National
Council on Aging, www.ncoa.org
National
Institute on Aging, www.nih.gov/nia
National
Guardianship Association, www.guardianship.org
Hospice
and palliative care
Compassion &
Choices, www.compassionandchoices.org
Americans for
Better Care of the Dying, www.abcd-caring.org
Hospice Foundation
of America, www.hospicefoundation.org
National Hospice
and Palliative Care Organization,www.nhpco.org
Hospice Association
of America, www.hospice-america.org
Unclaimed property
or benefits
Looking for
unclaimed property held by State of California:
www.sco.ca.gov/col/ucp
or call 800 992-4647
National site
regarding missing or unclaimed assets, www.unclaimed.org
To see if you
might be owed pension benefits, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
may be able to assist. It has produced a guide, "Finding a Lost
Pension" (PBGC Communications & Public Affairs Dept, 1200 K
St. NW, Washington DC, 20005-4026), www.pbgc.gov
or the search site at search.pbgc.gov.
Also, contact the Pension Rights Project in California at 800 474-1116
Distribution
rules for Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA's) and other retirement
plans such as 401(k)'s and 403(b)'s can be very complicated. The
Internal Revenue Service's IRS Publication 590 provides details
concerning the required minimum distribution rules, www.irs.ustreas.gov
(or contact the IRS via telephone at 800 829-3676)
Legal
American Bar
Association (ABA) Commission on the Legal Problems of the Elderly,
www.abanet.org/elderly
National
Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), www.naela.org
National
Senior Citizens Law Center, www.nsclc.org
Miscellaneous
Carol Abaya,
The Sandwich Generation, www.TheSandwichGeneration.com
Collection
of articles and statistics, www.go60.com
Inspirational profiles of seniors, news, etc., www.demko.com
Life expectancy estimate, www.livingto100.com
Noncommercial reverse mortgage calculator, www.reverse.org
Social
Security death register, www.ancestry.com
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