“The mission of this website is to encourage city, state and national lawmakers to establish a week between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day,
Sunday–Saturday,
as Senior Appreciation Week. Theme:
Celebrating Seniors!”

OUR MISSION is to encourage middle and high school students to participate in “living-history” panel discussions with Seniors who speak about their experiences during past events in history.
OUR MISSION is to help bridge the gap between generations: Encourage all Senior Centers (during National Senior-Appreciation-Week™) to organize an Open House Week program inviting their community neighbors, including young people, to visit and participate in their programs.

Senior Appreciation To

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH / N.I.H. Website www.nihseniorhealth.gov
This easy to use Senior Health website features basic health and wellness information for older adults from the National Institutes of Health, a government agency.

You can use the buttons at the top of each page to make the text bigger, change text color or hear the text read aloud. This site was developed by the National Institute on Aging and the National Library of Medicine both part of the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH.

Many of the health topics feature short videos that complement the information in the topic. The health videos offer up to date medical information, tips for healthy living and inspiring stories of older adults who are coping with diseases or conditions of aging.

Senior Appreciation To

Josephine P. Briggs, M.D., Director
NCCAM / NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY & ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (formerly, Office of Alternative Medicine)
(888) 644 6226 / www.nccam.nih.gov

Berkeley Bedell, a retired congressman (Iowa), who had suffered from Lyme disease and then recurrent prostate cancer, both of which were successfully treated by alternative medicine therapies, went to Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa (D) and “together they came up with the idea of establishing an office for alternative medicine at the National Institutes of Health, to lend some legitimacy to alternative therapies.”

Senator Harkin’s interest in preventive health care came from the loss of his two sisters to breast cancer and his father to black lung disease.

As Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees funding of the NIH, Senator Harkin had Congress mandate formation of the Office of Alternative Medicine in fiscal 1992 with a $2 million budget. By Congressional degree, the mission of the Office of Alternative Medicine is “to facilitate the evaluation of alternative medical treatment modalities for the purpose of determining their effectiveness and to help integrate effective treatments into the mainstream medical practice.”

Today the OAM is an independent institute of the NIH with the fiscal year 2010 budget of $128.8 million supporting complementary and alternative medicine research at more than 260 institutions throughout the country and provides science based information to the public and health professionals.