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LIBRARIES
- An Index to Publicly Funded Libraries
- This site provides links to the public libraries of all 50 states, the Library of Congress, Presidential Libraries, The National Library, The National Library of Medicine, The National Archives & Records, and University and College libraries.
- The Internet Public Library
- Easily the best resource on the web. If you notice that I've come up missing, you know where I'll be hanging out.
- The Public Library of Science
- PLOS is a non-profit organization committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. They publish a series of journals covering subjects from biology to genetics, including one on medical trials.
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- Drs. Cavanaugh Educational Technology
- The Drs. Cavanaugh are teacher educators. The bulk of their site is focused on educating teachers. However, this link will lead you to their directory of an amazing assortment of ebook libraries.
DIRECTORIES
- Healthfinder
- The Yahoo! Directory
The Open Source Directory Project is the only completely free directory on the Web. It boasts 4,000,000 listings all of which have been reviewed and evaluated by human editors for quality of content.
OTHER READING
So far, ClickBank is the closest thing to a library of commercial ebooks that I've found.
LEGAL RESOURCES
- LegalFish®
- Net the right lawyer with LegalFish®. Find the right attorney in your city, state, or nationwide to handle your business or personal legal needs. Submit your legal request and qualified, pre-screened attorneys already interested in your issue respond. This is a free service. In addition, check out the LegalFish® Lifeline Funding Program if you need help with the expenses.
- Prepaid Legal
- Prepaid Legal pools the dues of all its 1.5 million members and retains select attorneys in each state. For family caregivers, it is a convenient way to draw up wills, living wills, power of attorneys and get a knowledgeable review of the contracts incumbent to arranging for long term residential care or live-in personal assistants or nurses. Since Prepaid Legal only retains one law firm in each state, using them to pursue a legal action may be more inconvenient and more expensive than using your local attoneys.
- SocialSecurityHome
- A portal to social secuity disability attorneys. It offers a free claims evaluation and some good insider information.
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GOVERNMENT PORTALS & AGENCIES
- The Federal Government
- The Federal Government's public portal to all its services.
- Government Publications
- Ye Olde Government Printing Office, for those of us who remember it by that name.
- Clinical Trials Search Engine
- This site can link you to every clinical trial the government is helping to fund. The database can be search by specific criteria and by whether the trial is still recruiting.
- Federal Health web sites
- A directory of Links to Federal agencies and toll free numbers to some health related federally funded organizations
- The Federal Site for Medicare Information
- The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- The most practical site to search for information on Medicare or Medicaid
- Social Security Disabilty
- Note that over 70% of all social security disability claims are routinely denied the first time around and it can take months for a claim to be processed. Apply for Medicaid first as they will deny you because you were denied Social Security disability. But apply for your disability benefits as soon as your claim with Medicaid has been reviewed. If your disability claim is eventually approved, you will not be eligible for Medicare benefits until two years after your first claim was submitted. You may lose all your Medicaid in that interval. Do not delay.
- The Guide to pursuing a Social Security Disability claim
- Not a government site but a "must see" if you are filing a new claim or disputing one that has been denied.
- SocialSecurityHome
- A portal to social secuity disability attorneys. It offers a free claims evaluation and some good insider information.
- business.gov
- The Federal Government's homepage for a site regarding issues that concern business entrepreneurs.
- Medline Plus
- Provided by the National Library of medicine and the National Institute of Health, this site is a storehouse of information actually presented in a way the average person can understand. There is so much there, I use the sitemap to navigate it. You might feel like passing on the tutorials, but it's really one of the best services this site offers
- Small Business Administration
- State and Local Government
- A directory to government sites in all 50 states plus US Protectorates.
- The Federal Governments Telecommuting Website
PRIVATE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
- ABLEDATA.com
- Funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation through the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, they have a database of over 30,000 products to assist the disabled. They also have a complete compliment of additional services.
- HelpingPatients.org
- Put up by PHRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America), last year they provided free medicine for 6.2 million patients. Their eligibility wizard will help you find programs and let you sign up online or print out applications.
- Family Caregiver Alliance
- This started out as a site for elder care and in that area, it still excels. It has a lot of information of interest to all family caregivers and is an active voice in promoting family caregiver causes.
- FamilyCaregiving101
- The NFCA developed this site as part of their "Family Caregiving...it's not all up to you" campaign.
- MedicareRights.org
- This site promotes awareness of changes in Medicare and what they mean to the average patient.
- National Family Caregivers Assoc.
- The NFCA promotes the cause of all caregivers regardless of the patient's diagnoses or life stage. Right now, they are urging the development of Federally funded respite care. One of their neatest offerings is the National Family Caregiver Story Project
- National Organization for the Empowerment of Caregivers
- NOFEC promotes public awareness of family caregiving issues and provides support, education, training and assistance to family cargivers by working with community interest groups.
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EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
- The Awesome Library
- The Awsome Library is great place to visit if you're a parent who is tutoring or home schooling your child or if you are a teenaged family caregiver looking for classroom oriented material to help you catch up.
- AAA Math
- A great place for math tutoring for all ages.
- A+ Math
- Another great math place that uses some different strategies than AAA Math.
- Mrs. Pruden's Second Grade Classroom
- This is a website developed every year by Mrs. Pruden's 2nd grade class. It seems to be a really exceptional resource for the young home bound student and his/her parents.
PERSONALLY OURS
- Empowering Caregivers
- This is a site that leaves out nothing. It's like digging through your grandparents'attic.
It offers chat rooms and message boards along with many, many other resources.
- In Celebration of Bobby Morin
- Ten years ago, Bobby Morin and his twin sister Tasha fell into the pond on their Grandparents' farm. They were 3 1/2 years old. Tasha drowned but Bobby survived. He came home from the hospital in a near vegetative state and the family was told not to expect too much. Bobby is now going on fourteen and still improving. Written between the lines of Bobby's story is the family's struggle to find the ways and means to manage his care and provide for his therapy. But, they aren't asking for anything. They just want to offer a little bit of hope to others.
- squirreltales.com
- This is one of those wonderful sites. If your child has cancer, this should be your favorite place.
(One reason this site can be hard to find, if you go to squirreltales.org you'll end up on a site for the care and feeding of baby squirrels)
- Today's Caregiver Website
- In 1995 Gary Barg and his mother founded Today's Caregiver Magazine and it's companion website caregiver.com. In 1998, they added the Fearless Caregiver Conferences to their list of achievements and Gary has written the book, The Fearless Caregiver: Getting the Best Care for Your Loved One and Still Having a Life of Your Own, available at Amazon.com.
Caregiver.com features inspiring articles, a relatively active set of conferences (message boards) and chat rooms.
OTHER HELPFUL LINKS
- AT&T: Telecommuting Workbook for AT&T employees
- At AT&T working at home is an option. This is a website they put up as a guide for employees who want to take advantage of this opportunity. It is a handy primer for anyone who wants to talk to their boss about letting them work at home.
- The Freelance Work Exchange
- Get direct access to hundreds of freelance and home-based jobs. This is a not free resource but seems to be reasonably priced and has a wide variety of qualified opportunities.
- FreelanceWriting.com
- A free resource for finding freelance opportunities
- GenuineJobs.com
- A free job listing resource that specializes in telecommuting and work at home solutions
- MyBizOffice.com
- This company will take over the job of being your employer. Besides giving you all the benefits of getting a W-2 at the end of the year, it reimburses some of your expenses and makes available comprehensive medical insurance, disability/life insurance and retirement plans, all at group rates.
- SmallBizTown
- A great resource for small business owners or those looking to start one.
- Workaholics4Hire
- In 1997, as a single mother, Sylvia Charrier began Workaholics4Hire as a spin-off of her own successful efforts at earning a living at home. The free site offers job listings,helpful information and many other resources useful to those of us who need to work from home.
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