Retirement & Senior Sites on the Web

Computers & the Internet:

• Expedition Internet!  AARP's site on web basics:  http://www.aarp.org/expedition/
• Computer Buying FAQs   http://www.infohq.com/Computer/computerhome.htm
• Urban Legends - info. on viruses, rumors, etc. - http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html

• About:  http://about.com/
• Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com/
• TIP from WKU:  http://www.datamasters.com/cgi-bin/col.pl
• A Web Pointer For Senior Adults:  http://web.pdx.edu/~psu01435/startup.html

Search engine -- Google -- http://www.google.com/

Advocacy & Consumer Information:

• AARP - the national organization:  http://www.aarp.org/
• AARP/Kentucky - our local chapter: http://www.aarp.org/statepages/ky.html
• Consumer Information, Pueblo: http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/
• Vehix:  http://vehix.com/researchintro.asp

Cooking: 

• Kentucky Cooking: http://www.kentuckycooking.com/recipes.htm
• Allrecipes: http://allrecipes.com/
• What's in the Fridge Recipes: 
  http://food.women.com/food/recipes/SearchFridge.jsp

Education:

• Elderhostel  http://www.elderhostel.org/
• Programs for the Young at Heart-- WKU & Elderhostel http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Support/AcadAffairs/ContinuingEd/ProgramsForSeniors00.html

Grandparenting:  http://www.grandparentworld.com/index.cfm

Health & Well Being:

• For drug information, medical dictionaries, How to Find a Doctor or Dentist MedlinePlus: http://www.medlineplus.gov
• Mayo Clinic:  http://www.mayoclinic.com/        
• Medicare:  http://www.hcfa.gov/medicare/medicare.htm
• Older Americans 2000: Key Indicators of Well-Being: http://www.agingstats.gov/chartbook2000/default.htm

Maps & Travel & Driving Directions:

• MapQuest:  http://www.mapquest.com/
• Travel on the World Wide Web: http://www.wku.edu/Library/dlps/guides/travel.htm

Hobbies & Recreation:

• Links to all kinds of hobbies:
  http://home.about.com/hobbies/index.htm?PM=59_0209_T
• Scrapbooking:
  http://scrapbooking.about.com/hobbies/scrapbooking/mbody.htm
• Recreation (fishing! Plus):
  http://home.about.com/recreation/index.htm?PM=59_0238_T
• Do It Yourself:  http://www.doityourself.com/sitemap.htm

Government & Politics

• C-SPAN: http://www.c-span.org
• Commonwealth of Kentucky:  http://www.state.ky.us/
• GovSpot -- http://www.govspot.com/
• Images of American Political History:
  http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/index.htm
• Political Parties -- all of them! 
  http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/aon.out.pl?id=law3000
• Social Security  http://www.ssa.gov/SSA_Home.html
• Veterans Affairs:  http://www.va.gov/

News, Weather & Sports

• CNN:  http://www.cnn.com/
• Park City Daily News:  http://www.BGDailyNews.com/
• Links to Over 6000 Newspapers: 
  http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/
• Weather: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/rbigmain.html
• ESPN http://espn.go.com/                            

Books, Libraries & Reference Works:

Books On the Web:

• The On-Line Books Page: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
• Project Bartleby:  http://www.bartleby.net/

• Bowling Green Public Library:  http://www.bgpl.com/
• Internet Public Library:  http://www.ipl.org/
• Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/
• Western Kentucky University Library: http://www.wku.edu/Library/

• American Heritage Dictionary 3^rd edition: http://www.bartleby.com/61/
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations:  http://www.bartleby.com/100/
• Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/
• The Reference Shelf:  http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/reference.html