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Becoming well informed is another important step you can take to protect your health. Thousands of websites provide health-related information, including information on AD. Some of the information on these websites is reliable, but some is not. Health websites sponsored by the Federal Government are good sources of information, as are websites of large professional organizations and well-known medical schools. Some excellent Internet sources of AD and other health-related information for consumers are:

Alzheimer’s Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center
P.O. Box 8250
Silver Spring, MD 20907-8250
800-438-4380 (toll-free)
www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers

A service of the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the ADEAR Center offers information and publications for families, caregivers, and professionals on diagnosis, treatment, patient care, caregiver needs, long-term care, education and training, and research related to AD. Staff members answer telephone, email, and written requests and make referrals to local and national resources. The ADEAR website offers free, online publications in English and Spanish; email alert and online Connections newsletter subscriptions; an AD clinical trials database; the AD Library database; and more.

Alzheimer Research Forum
www.alzforum.org

The Alzheimer Research Forum, an online community and resource center, offers professionals and the general public access to an annotated index of scientific papers, research news, moderated discussions on scientific topics, libraries of animal models and antibodies, and directories of clinical trials, conferences, jobs, and research-funding sources.

Alzheimer’s Association
225 North Michigan Avenue, Floor 17
Chicago, IL 60601-7633
800-272-3900 (toll-free)
866-403-3073 (TDD/toll-free)
www.alz.org

The Alzheimer’s Association is a national, nonprofit organization with a network of local chapters that provide education and support for people diagnosed with AD, their families, and caregivers. The Association also funds research on AD.

Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0949
858-622-5880
http://adcs.ucsd.edu

The Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS) is a cooperative agreement between NIA and the University of California, San Diego, to advance research in the development of drugs to treat AD. The ADCS is a consortium of medical research centers and clinics working to develop clinical trials of medicines to treat behavioral symptoms of AD, improve cognition, slow the rate of decline caused by AD, delay the onset of AD, or prevent the disease altogether. The ADCS also develops new and more reliable ways to evaluate patients enrolled in clinical trials.

ClinicalTrials.gov
www.ClinicalTrials.gov

ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. Users can search for clinical trials and find information about each trial’s purpose, who mayparticipate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.

For additional copies of this publication or further information on Alzheimer’s disease, please contact:

Alzheimer’s Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center
www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers
800-438-4380
P.O. Box 8250
Silver Spring, MD 20907-8250

National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Aging
Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Aging
NIH Publication No. 09-5503
April 2009

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