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A list of important links related to the Formal and Informal PAS.

Carework Network
http://www.carework-network.org/

The Carework Network is an international organization of researchers, policymakers, and advocates involved in various domains of care work. Carework research and policy focus on the caring work of individuals, families, communities, paid caregivers, social service agencies, and state bureaucracies, and ask important questions about such matters as:

• how women's labor force participation has affected the nature & scope of women's and men's caring work;
• how identities influence carework;
• how inequality based on gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other factors relates to caring;
• how caring work is recognized and compensated;
• how various state welfare policies the distribution of carework;
• and whether and to what extent citizens have a right to receive, and a duty to provide, care.

DisabilityInfo.gov
http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/

DisabilityInfo.gov is the federal government's one-stop Web site site for people with disabilities, their families, employers, veterans and service members, workforce professionals and many others. Program topics by state are: employment, education, housing, transportation, health, benefits, technology, community life and civil rights.

EUROFAMCARE
http://www.uke.uni-hamburg.de/extern/eurofamcare/

EUROFAMCARE is an international research project funded within the 5th Framework Programme of the European Community, Key Action 6: The Ageing Population and Disabilities, 6.5: Health and Social Care Services to older People, Contract No QLK6-CT-2002-02647 "EUROFAMCARE". The EUROFAMCARE project will provide a European review of the situation of family carers of elderly people in relation to the existence, familiarity, availability, use and acceptability of supporting services.

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) - Aging Activities Group
http://www.cdc.gov/aging/

The Aging Activities Group of the NCHS performs research and analysis and disseminates data on the health and health care utilization of aging Americans.

The above link is to a page with a collection of data tables providing information on trends of health and health care use by older Americans and a family of surveys designed to measure changes in health status, health-related behaviors, health care utilization, and the causes and consequences of these changes within and across two cohorts of elderly Americans.

National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA)
http://www.thefamilycaregiver.org/index.cfm

For people who have family members as caregivers, this website gives tips and advice for families and caregivers.