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)