Resources
HMSA Resources
Government Programs
Finance and Retirement
Medicare
Nutrition
Fitness
Cancer
Diabetes
Life Strategies
Government Programs
- Medicare
- Social Security
- Executive Office on Aging
- Sage PLUS
- C&C Honolulu Elderly Affairs Division
- EAD Senior Information and Assistance Handbook
- Hawaii County Office on Aging
- Maui County Office on Aging
- Kauai County Agency on Elderly Affairs
Finance and Retirement
- National Endowment for Financial Education
- The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors
- Find BBB Accredited Retirement Planners in Hawaii
Medicare
- The Official U.S. Government Site for People With Medicare
- Choosing a Medigap Policy: A Guide to Health Insurance for People with Medicare
- Prescription Drug Coverage
- HMSA’s Medicare Health Plan - 65C Plus (Cost)
- HMSA’ 65C Plus Prescription Drug Option
- Medicare
- What is Medicare and How Does Medicare Work?
- Protecting Medicare and You From Fraud
- Educating and Empowering Seniors to Prevent Health Care Fraud and Abuse
- Medicare Fraud Detection and Prevention Tips
- HHS Says Grassroots Effort to Fight Medicare Fraud Have Paid Off
- U.S. Dept. of Helath and Human Services and U.S. Dept. of Justice’s site on Medicare Fraud
- HMSA Members Can Report Health Care Fraud Or Abuse Here
Body
Nutrition
- Simple, interactive guide to reading nutrition labels from the Mayo Clinic website
- Latest news on food and nutrition from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Website that lets you type in the name of a food or restaurant to find out the nutritional breakdown
- Nutrition information for Zippy’s menu items
- Hawaii Cooks and Saves, by longtime Hawaii food and cooking expert Muriel Miura is full of money-saving tips and recipes for local and eclectic favorites.
- Farmers’ markets run by the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation
- Schedule of weekly People’s Open Markets around Oahu
- Suggestions for different fruits and vegetables to incorporate in your diet
- Hawaii Foods website gives nutritional informational on hundreds of your favorite local foods
- Consumer Reports: When buying organic pays (and doesn’t)
- Organic Consumers Association
- Is it worth to buy organic?
- Maui health guru Renee Loux’s website lists Top 10 Reasons to Go Organic
- HMSA Classes - Healthy Eating for Families
- HMSA Classes - Mission: Nutrition
- Smart nutrition tips to help prevent breast cancer
- What You Need to Know About Diet and Prostate Cancer
- Well-done Red Meat May Increase Cancer Risk in Some People
- Office of Dietary Supplements
- Report about Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer
- United States Cancer Statistics: Hawaii
- Cancer prevention in a vitamin pill?
- Antioxidants fail again in cancer prevention study
- Effects of Supplements on Cancer Treatment
- Common Questions About Diet and Cancer
- Foods that improve memory?
- Nutrition advice to help manage your arthritis pain
- Fight arthritis with these foods
- Order The DASH eating plan—Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with DASH, from the National Institutes of Health or by calling (301) 592-8573 or (240) 629-3255
- Healthy Eating After 50
- Nutrition for Women Over 50
- General Nutrition Resource List for Older Adults
- Calcium and Bone Health
- Proper Nutrition Essential for Bone Health, U-M Experts Say
- Baby Boomer Nutrition
- A guide to Hawaii foods and their nutritional content
- A Guide to Choosing Lean Meats and Poultry
- A Dietary Arsenal Against 8 Serious Disorders
- The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, by David Kessler, former dean of Yale School of Medicine and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, is a New York Times best seller.
- Dr. Dean Ornish’s podcast on healthy eating
- Changing Behavior to Lose Weight
- Tips for the Savvy Supplement User
- Frequently Asked Questions about Dietary Supplements
- The Truth Behind the Top 10 Dietary Supplements
- Should you take a nutritional supplement?
- Dietary supplements: Nutrition in a pill?
- Supplement Information: Help or Hype?
- FDA’s Overview of Dietary Supplements
- The Okinawa Diet On-Line
- Mindful Approach is Pillar of the Okinawa Diet Plan
- Recipes for a Long Life
- Stars of Okinawan Cuisine
Fitness
- HMSA Classes - Body Force
- HMSA Classes - Body Power
- HMSA Classes - Strong, Straight and Steady
- Promoting Health Through Tai Chi
- Improved stress reduction, balance, agility for all
- Qigong Benefits Heart Health
- 51 Ways to Be Good to Your Joints
- Joint Health Quiz
- Arthritis Basics
- Keep your joints healthy: A complete guide
- Common Causes of Joint Pain
- National Arthritis Walk
- American Heart Association: What Is High Blood Pressure?
- Measure your risk for high blood pressure
- How much do you know? Take this quiz
- Qigong classes at Castle Medical Center
- Yoga classes at Kapiolani Medical Center and Pali Momi
- HMSA’s Health Education Class, “Strong, Straight and Steady”
- Classes at Kapiolani Medical Center, including osteo-cise
- Castle Medical Center’s ongoing Bone Builder class
- Exercising with osteoporosis: Stay active the safe way
- Bone Basics: Moving Safely (PDF)
- Osteoporosis FAQs
- National Osteoporosis Foundation
- Exercising with osteoporosis: Stay active the safe way
- Slide show: Exercises for osteoporosis
- Stay Healthy, Right Down to Your Bones: Myths
- Fall prevention: 6 ways to reduce your falling risk
- WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool
- Do you know your swine flu?
- With Soap and Water or Sanitizer, a Cleaning That Can Stave Off the Flu
- Novel H1N1 Influenza A (Swine Flu) in Hawaii
- H1N1 Influenza: Frequently Asked Questions
- Top Swine Flu Myths Debunked
- Cold and Flu Guidelines: Myths and Facts
- Swine Flu Facts, Swine Flu Myths
- Want to Live to Be 100?
- Books on Health: Exploring Okinawans’ Recipes for Longer Lives
- CNN: Secret of Long Life in Okinawa
Cancer
- American Cancer Society
- Smart nutrition tips to help prevent breast cancer
- What You Need to Know About Diet and Prostate Cancer
- Well-done Red Meat May Increase Cancer Risk in Some People
- Report about Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer
- United States Cancer Statistics: Hawaii
Diabetes
- American Diabetes Association’s homepage
- Taking control of your diabetes
- Carbohydrates and Diabetes
- Sweets and Desserts
- Sweeter (and Better) Than Sugar? Two doctors take a close look at artificial sweeteners
- Diabetes Risk Calculator
- How to Prevent or Delay Diabetes
- CDC’s National Diabetes Fact Sheet
- Thriving with Diabetes
Osteoarthritis
- Arthritis Foundation
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
- Brigham & Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School
- The New York Times Health Guide on Osteoarthritis
Mind
- HMSA Classes - Stress Master
- HMSA Classes - Meditation for Health
- HMSA Classes - Engaging in Aging
- Say Om: Doctors Find Meditation Affects Your Body
- Meditation Found to Increase Brain Size
- Meditation for Health Purposes
- Exercise & Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide from the National Institute on Aging
- Sharp Brains.com
- New York Times article on the business of brain games for Boomers
- Understanding Age Related Memory Loss: Harvard Medical School
- Improving Your Memory: Tips and Techniques
- The National Sleep Foundation
- The National Institutes of Health – Sleep & Aging page
- The Centers for Disease Control
- Dr. James Maas’ Power Sleep site
- Find an accredited sleep lab through the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
- National Center on Sleep Disorders Research
- National Institute on Aging
- Consumer Reports 008 Report on Insomnia drugs
- Dr. James Maas’ Power Sleep – sleep disorders page
- Alzheimer’s Association Aloha Chapter
- Alzheimer’s Association
- Myths About Aging and the Brain
- 50 Ways to Boost Your Noodle
- Five Tools for Improving Your Memory
- Alzheimer’s Association Aloha Chapter
- Project Dana
- Know the 10 Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease
Life Strategies
- The Okinawa Program: How the world’s longest-lived people achieve everlasting health—and how you can too, by Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., and Makoto Suzuki, M.D., is a New York Times bestseller
- Internet Fraud Tips
- Strong passwords: How to create and use them
- Microsoft’s updated collection of Internet safety tips
- Five Good Security Habits
- Top Anti-Spam Tips
- Reporting Internet Fraud
- Road Runner’s tips on avoiding phishing
- Sample of a phishing e-mail
- Sample of a phishing website
- Buying prescription drugs online: The dos and don’ts
- Where to report problems with mail-order prescriptions
- Pharmacists Encourage Patients to Seek Their Guidance When Choosing OTC Medications
- Cutting Drug Costs: 11 Dos and Don’ts
- How to save money on prescription drugs
- Tips to Cut Your Drug Costs
- Spend less on prescription medicines
- What Makes a Home Easier to Live in as We Get Older?
- Evaluate Your Home for Aging in Place
- Learn About Aging in Place and What a Professional Can Do
- Forever Home: Baby Boomers Grow Old Gracefully in Homes Designed to Last a Lifetime
- The Best Life: Tips to Help Parents Who Want to Age In Place
- Entrances & Exits Checklist
- AARP Bathroom Checklist
- National Aging in Place Council Bedroom/Bathroom
- 20 Minutes to a Clutter-Free House
- Declutter Your Life
- Ten Ways to Declutter Your Home
- Say No to Clutter Foods
- Clearing Clutter
- Marilyn Nagel’s website
- Hawaii Association of Professional Organizers
- International OCD Foundation
- Clutter and Hoarding
- Hoarding
- Hoarding: Examining the Basics
- The 36-Hour Day
- National Alliance for Caregiving
- Stress Management
- Caregivers Experience Depression, Isolation
- Family Caregiving Guide
- PBS Caring for Your Parent Special
- Deciding “Who Cares?” A Legal Handbook for Hawaii’s Older Persons, Families and Other Caregivers
- Long-Term Care Insurance: Is It Right for You (And Your Parents)?
- Do You Need Long-Term Care Insurance?
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