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- AlleyCat
- Use AlleyCat, the CCAC online catalog, to find materials at any of the CCAC libraries
Clinical Reference Systems
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Offers thousands of essays, many with images, covering eight major health related subjects including: adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health and sports medicine. Searched via "Health Source: Consumer Edition." Provided by EBSCOhost.
Credo Reference
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Contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri,
encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific
titles covering everything from accounting to zoology. Provides access to the
full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular reference sources. Provided
by Credo.
Lexi-PALS Drug Guide
Enter the drug name in EBSCO search box.
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Contains frequently updated consumer drug information sheets for medications and immunizations. Searched via "Health Source: Consumer Edition." Provided by EBSCOhost.
Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary
Select "Medical Dictionary" from menu at top of page.
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Provides the full text of the popular dictionary. Searched via "Health Source: Consumer Edition." Provided by EBSCOhost.
Academic Search Premier
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Provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Provided by EBSCOhost.
MasterFILE Premier
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Provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags. Provided by EBSCOhost.
CINAHL FullText
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Provides full text for more than 600 journals indexed in CINAHL and is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals. Contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981. Provided by EBSCOhost.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
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Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Provided by EBSCOhost.
Health Source: Nursing & Academic Edition
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Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines; also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. Provided by EBSCOhost.
MEDLINE
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Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Provided by EBSCOhost.
- Alzheimer's Association
- The Alzheimer's Association provides world wide leadership in Alzheimer
research and support. Their comprehensive site provides access to frequently
asked questions, research, treatments and news stories.
- Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center (ADEAR)
- ADEAR is operated by the National Institute on Aging and provides answers
to specific questions, free publications, referrals to supportive services, clinical
trial information and literature database searches.
- The Alzheimer's Store
- The products offered at this site are intended to make life safer and easier for
the Alzheimer suffer and the caregiver.
- Confronting Alzheimer's :A Guide for Law Enforcement Agencies
- This 40 page manual is geared towards law enforcement personnel to provide a better
understanding of the problems and symptoms associated with Alzheimer's.
- The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's
- This is a PBS sponsored site highlighting the PBS production of the docudrama
The Forgetting. The site is rich in information covering the areas of
symptoms, risk factors, coping, and under "Together Time", a clever section
called the "Living Center" with activities.
- MyOptumHealth.com - Alzheimer's
- This site provides information, in layman's terms, in the areas of symptoms, signs & tests,
complications, treatment, causes, incidence, risk factors and prevention.
- Reducing Caregiver Stress
- This Canadian based site offers some strategies for coping with stress, as well as
ten common signs of caregiver stress.
- The Ribbon Online
- The highlights of this site include The Ribbon Newsletter, designed to provide information
for caregivers dealing with Alzheimer's and dementia, and the "Recipe Corner" which
provides healthful menus and recipes.
- Safe at Home with Alzheimer's Disease and other Related Disorders (ADRD)
- Strategies dealing with wandering and general safety tips are provided at this site.
- Solutions for Living with Alzheimer's : The Caregiver's Guide to Home Modification
- An explanation describing how to make your home safe for an Alzheimer sufferer is provided
in an article from Ageless Design.