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Best Geriatric & Senior Health Sites - Hardin MD

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Article Indexes: When searching, try: Aged, Aging, Geriatric, Gerontology, Old age, Senior or Retirement. AgeLine - Free via WWW AgeInfo - Searchable via WWW All LSL indexes and databases Affiliated teaching hospital online resources ACP Journal Club CancerLit CINAHL OR through CRNBC Clinical Evidence (via BMJ) Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) EBM Reviews (Search all at once) EMBASE International Pharmaceutical Abstracts - IPA Journals@Ovid MD Consult MEDLINE OR PubMed Web of Science Other Reference Tools: Selected eresources: Ebooks in the Life Sciences (by title) Merck Manual of Geriatrics Selected print resources: Basic geriatric nursing Comprehensive review of geriatric psychiatry II Delmar's geriatric nursing care plans Encyclopedia of aging Factbook on aging in B.C. Geriatric interdisciplinary team training Geriatric neuropsychology : assessment and intervention Geriatric nutrition: the health professional's handbook Geriatric mental health care Geriatric physical therapy Geriatric programs and departments worldwide Gerontological nursing New ways to care for older people: building systems based on evidence Nutrition in aging Oxford textbook of geriatric medicine Principles of geriatric medicine and gerontology Regional geriatric health services plan, 1993-2006 Conferences/Papers: Geriatric conferences Statistics: Atlas of Canada - Age In ternational Aging Statistics - PDF Document National Center for Health Statistics - Trends in Health and Aging (US) Residential care facilities - StatsCan Survey Writer's Toolbox: Current Awareness Services for the Life Sciences Writer's Toolbox - Abbreviations, style, etc.

Associations/Societies: Alzheimer Society of British Columbia Alzheimer Society of Canada American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry American Federation for Aging Research American Geriatrics Society American Society on Aging Association for Gerontology in Higher Education British Society for Research on Ageing British Society of Gerontology Canadian Association on Gerontology Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association Osteoporosis Society of Canada Lists & Newsgroups: AARP - Internet Resources on Aging Web and Internet Sites: British Columbia: BC's Office for Seniors Vancouver Public Library - Gerontology and Seniors University of Victoria - Centre on Aging Canada: CIHR Institute of Aging (IA) Dalhousie's List of Geriatric websites Health Canada - Seniors - Health Living J.W. Crane Gerontology Library - Winnipeg SFU's Gerontology Research Centre & Programs University of Toronto's Life Course & Aging Centre United States: AgeSource / AgeStats Worldwide Databases Harvard Medical School - Glenn Laboratories for Biological Mechanisms of Aging ElderWeb Healthy Aging Center International Federation on Aging National Council on the Aging National Institute on Aging NIH Senior Health Electronic Journals: UBC Resources: EJournals at UBC EJournals at UBC - Geriatric Medicine EJournal Collections Using "Proxy Bypass" Free sites: BioMed_Central BMJ articles - Geriatrics Long term care Psychogeriatrics Other geriatric medicine FreeMedicalJournals.Com Hardin MD - selected free ejournals HighWire Press Public Library of Science PubMedCentral Related Subject Resources: Topics in the Life Sciences

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UBC Departments: UBC Department of Medicine (includes Geriatrics) UBC Division - Geriatrics Discharge Planning

UBC Course Material: MEDICOL - Medicine and Dentistry Integrated Curriculum Online

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