Using and Evaluating Information Sources

• The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Resources
• How to Evaluate the Sources You Find
• Is It a Popular Magazine or a Scholarly Journal?

Citing Information

• College Writing and Citing: Styles by Discipline: Sociology - Web resources selected by EC librarians

Where to Go for Help

• Elmhurst College Learning Center
• Writing Center at Elmhurst College

NOTE:
Links to some of the library resources listed below will not work when this page is accessed from off-campus. To use these resources, please go to the Library Home Page, where you can connect to Articles and Databases, Reference Sources, and Electronic Journals and Newspapers after providing your Elmhurst College email login and password. If you do not know your E.C. login and password, please see Computer Services, Room 107 CSTC.

Use Illinet Online to determine if the library owns the journal in print or microfilm, and check Journals and Magazines Available Online for electronic access to journals. If the article you seek is unavailable from these sources, please request it through our online Interlibrary Loan article request form.

Resources for Debate Topics

The library owns a variety of books on the topics listed below. To locate specific title and call number information, use Illinet Online, the library's online catalog; try out some of the suggested subject headings. Also check out the subject-specific sources; there are several Web sites and print resources you may want to use in your research. These are certainly not the only resources on these topics; they are just places to begin.

Be sure to evaluate each Web site before using the information in your debate.

Suggested Subject Headings

• Aging
• Age factors in disease
• Aging--Social Aspects
• Aged
• Aged--Care
• Gerentology

See also the subject words listed below for particular subjects; these subject headings may also yield helpful results.

General Resources

Print Sources

• Bettelheim, Adriel. Aging in America A to Z (2001). Reference R 305.2603 B565a
• Egendorf, Laura K., ed. An Aging Population: Opposing Viewpoints (2002). 305.26 A289
• Maddox, George L., ed. The Encyclopedia of aging: a comprehensive resource in gerontology and geriatrics, 2nd ed. (1995). Reference R 305.2603 E561995
• Mezey, Mathy D. The Encyclopedia of Elder Care: The Comprehensive Resource on Geriatric and Social Care (2001). 362.19897 E56
• Moody, Harry R. Aging: Concepts and Controversies, 4th ed. (2002). 305.26 M817a 2002

Internet Resources

• Librarians Index to the Internet - Health and Medicine - This site includes descriptions and evaluations of Web pages and directories. See especially the sections on aged care, death, euthanasia, hospices, insurance (including HMO's and PPO's), long-term care, Medicaid/Medicare, and patient advocacy, as well as other health topics. Try browsing the subjects as well as using the search box to find information.
• INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - Biological, Agricultural and Medical Sciences - This site has a subject browsing area as well as a search box to find information on medical topics.
• The Annual Editions - Aging 04/05 textbook has a companion Web site with links to other Web pages that address various aspects of aging.
• Google - This and any other web site may be useful for finding web sites. However, be careful to evaluate any sources you find.

Subject-Specific Resources

• AARP Research Center - Economic Security and Work
• National Center for Policy Analysis - MySocialSecurity.org
• Social Security Online
• Social Security Choice and Reform - from the CATO Institute
• Yahoo! News - Social Security - includes news stories, magazine articles, opinion pieces and Web sites
• Haber, Carole, and Brian Gratton. Old Age and the Search for Security: An American Social History (1993). Electronic Resource.
• Marmor, Theodore R., Timothy M. Smeeding, Vernon L. Greene, eds. Economic Security and Intergenerational Justice: A Look at North America (1994). 368.43 E19
• Schieber, Sylvester J. and John B. Shoven. The Real Deal: The History and Future of Social Security (1999). 368.43 S555r

• AARP Life Answers -- Caregiving
• National Family Caregiver Support Program - from the Administration on Aging, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Family Caregiver Alliance
• Focus Over Fifty - this website from Focus on the Family features some articles on home and hospice care, as well as on other matters relating to end-of-life matters. Do a search by typing your topic in quotation marks (for example, "home care") in the Search box in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. You can also browse the site for articles. Keep in mind that Focus on the Family is a consevative Christian organization, and that some of the articles may be written from this viewpoint.
• LongTermCareProvider.com
• Caregiver.org - the website of the Family Caregiver Alliance
• Biegel, David E., and Arthur Blum, eds. Aging and Caregiving: Theory, Research, and Policy (1990). 362.6 A267C
• Haley, James, ed. Death and Dying [Opposing Viewpoints series] (2003). 306.9 D285 2003
• Katz, Paul R., Robert L. Kane, Mathy D. Mezey. Quality Care in Geriatric Settings: Focus on Ethical Issues (1995). 610.7365 Q1

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Aging Internet Information Notes - Health and Long Term Care Costs and the Elderly - from the Administration on Aging
• Health Issues: Managed Care and Managed Competition - from the National Center for Policy Analysis
• Health Care Rationing - an article from the National Center for Policy Analysis
• Rock Ethics Institute: Bioethics: Aging and Ethics - contains a variety of articles looking at the issues and implications behind rationing health care for the elderly as well as lifespan extension; from Penn State University
• Callahan, Daniel. Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society (1995). Electronic Resource.
• Cypher, Deborah P. "Healthcare Rationing: Issues and Implications." Nursing Forum 32 no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1997), 25-33.
• Binstock, Robert H., and Stephen G. Post, eds. Too Old for Health Care?: Controversies in Medicine, Law, Economics, and Ethics (1991). 362.19897 T668
• Olson, Ellen, Eileen R. Chichin, Leslie S. Libow, eds. Controversies in Ethics in Long-Term Care (1995). 179.7 C764

• Death With Dignity
• End-Of-Life Choices
• Euthanasia.com
• International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide - look at the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) as well as the factsheet on euthanasia in the Netherlands
• Partnership for Caring - includes glossary of terms, selected articles, fact sheets and links to other websites
• Project on Death in America
• Emanuel, Ezekiel. "Whose Right to Die?" The Atlantic Online March 1997. Available: <http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97mar/emanuel/emanuel.htm>. Accessed 7 January 2004.
• Logue, Barbara J. Last Rights: Death Control and the Elderly in America (1993). 179.7 L832L
• Wekesser, Carol, ed. Euthanasia: Opposing Viewpoints (1995) 179.7 E91W
• Williams, Mary E., ed. Terminal Illness: Opposing Viewpoints (2001). 362.175 T319 2001

• Nursing Home Compare - Medicare's online tool for comparing nursing homes
• Alden Valley Ridge - Bloomingdale, IL - part of Alden Management Services, Inc.
• Anchorage of Bensenville - Bensenville, IL
• Condell Day Center for Intergenerational Care - Libertyville, IL
• Covenant Village of Northbrook - Northbrook, IL
• DuPage County Convalescent Center - Wheaton, IL
• The Holmstad - Batavia, IL
• King-Bruwaert House - Burr Ridge, IL
• Lexington of Elmhurst - Elmhurst, IL - part of Lexington Health Care Group & Affiliates
• Lieberman Geriatric Health Centre - Skokie, IL
• Little Sisters of the Poor - Chicago, IL
• North Shore Retirement Hotel - Evanston, IL
• King Home - Evanston, IL
• Villa Scalabrini - Northlake, IL - part of Resurrection Health Care
• Sunrise of Glen Ellyn - Glen Ellyn, IL
• The Wealshire - Lincolnshire, IL
• Wyndemere - Wheaton, IL