Senior Associations and Resources

Alliance for Retired Americans
The Alliance for Retired Americans is pretty much by and for labor unions and unionists. It is an activist voice for older Americans and is one of the largest organizations today representing senior citizens and their families. Created in to spearhead the charge to enact a health care program for senior citizens -- Medicare.

Benefits CheckUp
A free, easy-to-use service that identifies federal and state assistance programs for older Americans.

Go60.com
This is a no-nonsense, yet caring and compassionate internet resource devoted to helping seniors improve with age

Grand Times
Personal and travel advice for seniors.

Medicare -- The Official US Government Site
This official site provides information on health plans, nursing homes, Medigap policies, contacts, and Medicare activities in your area. Also Medicare Basics, information on coverage, eligibility, enrollment, your Medicare card, replacement card ordering, address changes, and help with health care costs.

Second 50 Years
Actually a site for those who want to market to today's 76 million seniors, soon (by 2015) to be 108 million.

Senior Citizens Bureau
The Senior Citizens Bureau (SCB) is a National Membership Organization dedicated to reducing and preventing abuse, neglect, fraud, scams and misleading business practices currently prevalent within the senior industry.

Senior Net
The nonprofit SeniorNet provides adults 50+ access to and education about computer technology and the Internet to enhance their lives and enable them to share their knowledge and wisdom.

Senior Women
A lifestyle magazine for women over fifty started by Tam Gray, a Senior Reporter for Time Magazine, with original content composed of cultural reviews, columns, articles and sightings There's a discussion forum and pages of annotated links.

Social Security Online
Quick Search. Electronic Publications. Disability information. Supplemental Security Income (SSI).

Suddenly Senior
A weekly 'zine and humor column, speaks to the hearts and funny bones of everyone over 50 who's 'became senior before their time.

ThirdAge
This is the leading Web destination for first-wave baby boomers. It provides unique resources, interactive guides and companions for ThirdAgers to enrich life and manage its transitions.

Time Capsule to your Birth
Want a detailed picture of the day you were born? Or any other day all the way back to 1900? Just enter your birth date and viola you get international and sports headlines, top songs, Academy Award Winners, even prices prevalent on that date. Talk about the "good old days," when I was born homes sold for $6,296, cars for $580, a loaf of bread went for 8 cents, gas for only 11 cents a gallon. Check out your birth date.

Too Young Too Retire - The Retirement Alternative
Welcome to 2young2retire.com, the online community for people who are using our mature years to turn our hobbies or youthful dreams into new businesses; start careers that express our passions; give back actively in the nonprofit sector; go back to school; get our bodies into shape or ignite our creativity.