Diseases Commonly Requiring
Long Term Care

There are multitudes of web sites with information regarding illnesses that will probably result in the need for long term care. I have listed the major ones here to get you started. These sites also have many links for more information.

The Alzheimer Page is sponsored by the Washington University (St. Louis) Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. This site is the source of the Alzheimer mailing list, a group of over 250 subscribers who exchange E-mail messages exchanging information and experiences related to Alzheimer's Disease. The subscriber group includes both professionals and caregivers. This site also includes links to other sites dealing with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia.

Heart Disease	Heart Disease	Multiple Sclerosis
Parkinson's Disease	Arthritic Conditions	Altzheimers Disease

Chronic Illness Net

ChronicIllnet is the first multimedia information source on the Internet dedicated to chronic illnesses including AIDS, cancer, Persian Gulf War Syndrome, autoimmune diseases, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, heart disease and neurological diseases. This site speaks to many different people--researchers, patients, laypeople, and physicians, to name a few.

Clinicians' corner Dehydration is one of the 10 most common reasons Medicare patients are hospitalized and die, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In fact, this condition costs Medicare nearly a half a billion dollars annually. Learn more about it on this site.

Merick InfoPack Information on Kidney Disease, Glaucoma, Osteoporosis, Heart Disease, HIV, various preventable diseases.

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