Infomation about Alzheimer's Disease

Reliable Information about Alzheimer’s Disease is available on line at

The Alzheimer’s Association website:
http://www.alz.org/index.asp

2010 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, a publication of the Alzheimer’s Association:
http://www.alz.org/documents_custom/report_alzfactsfigures2010.pdf

The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America website:
http://www.alzfdn.org/

The National Institute on Aging Alzheimer’s Disease Fact Sheet
http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/Publications/adfact.htm

The Family Caregiver Alliance
http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/home.jsp

The Wikipedia article on Alzheimer’s Disease:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer's_disease

Information about Research about Alzheimer's Disease:
http://www.ahaf.org/alzheimers/

Information about Alzheimer’s Disease and resources in New York State is available at
http://www.health.state.ny.us/diseases/conditions/dementia/

Resources on Long Island include:
The Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation:
http://www.liaf.org/en?Itemid=1 (includes links to additional local resources)

The Long Island Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association:
http://alz.org/longisland/in_my_community_about.asp

Information about a broad spectrum of health and social services on Long Island, including nursing homes, day programs, support groups, etc., is available at the 2-1-1 Long Island database (formerly the Community Resource Database of Long Island):
https://211longisland.communityos.org/cms/