Join Dr. Jane Everson and Ms. Frances Hall with this episode’s guest, Ms. Karen Lee Martinez, Outreach Librarian for the Northwest Area Health Education Center (NWAHEC), a department of Wake Forest School of Medicine and a part of the North Carolina AHEC program. Karen offers listeners practical guidelines for evaluating the health and medical information we find on websites. She also shares websites that adult-child caregivers might find useful they begin their caregiving journeys with their parents and other aging family members.
Websites of note mentioned:
Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine (nlm.nih.gov)
MedlinePlus (nlm.nih.gov)
What did My Doctor Say? (mlanet.org)
Recognizing health fraud from the Federal Trade Commission (ftc.gov)(consumer.ftc.gov)
NIH Senior Health (nihseniorhealth.gov)
NC Health Info (nchealthinfo.org)
NC Live (nclive.org)
Medicare (medicare.gov)
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