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Today's families face many challenges to try and stay connected, provide family care, and build family relationships, especially as family members tend to be more geographically dispersed.

Nclaves helps your family to stay connected so that you can continue to overcome these challenges. To help keep you informed, we have compiled a list of links to articles and websites that address many topics of concern to families today that you may want to explore in more detail. These topics include caregiving, longevity, aging, digital home devices, mental health, and family social issues. We will continue to add more links as we find them, so check back often and consider this your online resource library for family care issues.

1. Family and Relationship Issues - Topic Center

This website covers a whole host of cross-generational family topics, including parenting, aging, family communications, relationships among family members, conflict resolution and life issues. This site also has lots of other links, blogs, and book reviews.

URL: http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/center_index.php?id=51

2. Statistics on Family Caregivers and Family Caregiving

Did you know that "more than 65 million people, 29% of the U.S. population, provide care for a chronically ill, disabled or aged family member or friend during any given year"? Read more interesting statistics at this site.

URL: http://www.thefamilycaregiver.org/who_are_family_caregivers/care_giving_statstics.cfm

3. Blood Pressure May Improve by Being Socially Connected

Psychologists at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University did a study and found that the degree of loneliness was a predictor of blood pressure, particularly in adults 50-68 years of age. The more socially connected and supported adults had lower blood pressure.

URL: http://psychology.uchicago.edu/about/Hawkley_Loneliness&SBP_Psych&Aging_2006-1.pdf

4. Engage as You Age: Keeping Seniors Current and Connected

This site is a service that pairs Activity Specialists with homebound seniors in the San Francisco Bay Area. Interesting service.

URL: http://engageasyouage.com/

5. Elder Care, Caregiving and Dementia Expert & Author, Speaker, Radio Host: Jacqueline Marcell

Jacqueline Marcell is the author of "Elder Rage, or Take My Father, Please!: How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents", a bestseller that is a required text at numerous universities and being considered for a film. She is a sought-after international speaker and host of the popular Coping with Caregiving radio show. Her media coverage includes TODAY, CNN, AARP Bulletin cover story, Woman's Day, Prevention, and hundreds of radio/television interviews and presentations. The website has a wealth of resources, including several pages of elder care and related topics links.

URL: http://www.elderrage.com/

6. Magazine, Blog and Website about The Digital Home

This website and magazine addresses the technology trends and equipment available for a fully digital home. There is an active blog, along with product reviews, links and webcasts on a number of related topics.

URL: http://www.digitalhomeonline.com/