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)
