Slightly Creaky has been developed by a former AOL manager with considerable online research experience. We spend hundreds of hours every month searching through thousands of links looking for the ones slightly creaky people would use. Besides the obvious medical and health links, we provide information on travel, lifestyles, and home repair, while providing thousands of suggestions for new hobbies, activities, and ways of being productive and keeping busy.

We annotate every entry so you know what the site contains before you click. Our 2,300-plus support group and medical information links provide alphabetical lists of ailments, including "orphan" diseases, with links to support and informational sites. Since it's doubtful you could tell what the "The Magic Foundation" is, for example, simply by its name, we give you an in-depth description. In most cases we copy the statements or purposes directly from the site. We try not to editorialize.

More than just links, Slightly Creaky wants to provide first-person experiences of slightly creaky people, those who are feeling the ailments of their age, but still remain active. Thus we seek volunteers to write brief (400 to 600 word) columns on a variety of topics, from geocaching to storm chasing, from real-life experiences to thoughts on medical practices and pharmaceuticals. We encourage all of our readers to submit articles on any topic at any time.

 

Contents

(with easy to access links)

  Active Living. Home page for activities. Not sure what to do today or looking for a new hobby? We provide hundreds of ideas.

• Life Styles. There are many environments in which to live: urban, rural, overseas, on a cruise ship, traveling in a motor home, or in a care facility. We provide basic information about all these places so you can research the possibilities.
  
• Travel. Specific vacations, cruises, tours, and similar activities.
  
• Recreation. Indoor and outdoor activities to give you ideas of things to do. Many of them you have never considered but are easy and fun. Others are quite challenging. Have you tried geocaching, locating places using GPS devices, a wonderful way to find new locations in your area? Interested in learning bocce?
  
• On The Road. Whether you travel by train, bus, car, motorcycle, or motor home, there are destinations you do not want to miss. We have a huge listing of both the popular and the unusual.
• E- Learning. Electronic Learning includes formal university classes, lectures, how-to guides, and hundreds of other topics. We provide some of the most popular as well as links to online collections of E-classes.
  
  

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  In the Home. Home page for activities around the house.

• Entertaining. Whether you have one person visiting or five dozen, we provide links to sites to make entertaining easier and unique. There is also a suggestion about planning events outside your home, in your yard, a park, or a formal banquet hall.
  
• On the Table. Providing a listing of web sites that provide generalized or specific recipes and cooking suggestions.
  
• Leaky Pipes. Covering many types of household (and outside the house) repairs.
  
• Pets. Mice, horses, cats, fish, dogs, and dozens more. We provide information about care and feeding, boarding, medical and health. Have you ever thought about putting a GPS tracer in your dog or cat (or iguana)?
  
• Hobbies & Interests. Indoors or out, this section looks at the way people spend their leisure time. Designing model train layouts, knitting, gardening, collecting, exercising, and even creating web sites. We also have a special page for Online Games. There are 20 separate hobby pages, and some bonus pages.
  
• News, Information & Literature. Newspapers, news magazines, books (print and audible) are now available online. If you are interested in reading the New York Times, looking up what is showing on TV, or checking out information in an encyclopedia or dictionary, there are a huge amount of resources here.

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  Medical & Health. Home page for information about "the human condition." You can link directly to subcategories below.

• Medical Information. Links to medical information, dictionaries, encyclopedias, drugs and home remedies, advocacy, and groups that support many conditions.
  
• Support Groups. Six pages of annotated links to sites that support people and families with specific medical ailments and conditions. From the most common such as heart disease, diabetes, and vision problems, to orphan conditions that get very little attention. They are all here. Links to Support Group pages:
  

        A - B          C-  D           E- F- G          H - I - J- K
       L  -  M         N - O - P - Q          R - S           T - Z

• Family & Relationships. We choose our friends, but not our family. Relationships are difficult, whether between spouses, parents and children, and siblings. This section provides links to sites that offer suggestions to improve and repair such situations.
  
• Nutrition. From the food pyramid to calorie counters, nutrition guides for general living or specific medical conditions, you can find links to helpful sites here.

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  Consumer Information. Information about things we buy and use. Each section contains annotated links to appropriate web sites so that you do not need to use a search engine. You will probably find things here that you never considered researching.

• Consumer Assistance & Scam Watch. Links to consumer information pages on the Internet where you can find product reviews and comparisons, safety suggestions, and product recalls. Includes links to scam recognition and assistance locations.
  
• Finance. Making handling money just a little bit easier. Our links and articles include writing and probating wills (and how to avoid problems), providing for a power of attorney, investing, scams, living wills, and dozens more topics. It also includes links for tax preparation and Social Security.
• Energy. Every day electricity, gas, and heating fuel get more expensive. There are alternative ways you can provide for these modern needs without having to depend on the mega-corporations. If "green" is the energy word of the 21st century, you'll find information here.
• Legal Information. With every state, county, town, and city having conflicting legal rules, we can not possibly provide all the information you might need. We do, though, have links to general law sites that update their information as needed. Also provided are dictionaries of legal terms. (We provide the links, but do not guarantee what you find is accurate. Consult a lawyer.)
  

 

About Us. Information about the people behind Slightly Creaky, our philosophy, goals, and volunteers. This includes our safety guidelines and a chronology explaining the development of this site.

Contact Us. We have a variety of E-mail addresses if you wish to submit an article, suggest a new link, or to otherwise get in touch with the Slightly Creaky team.

Legal Stuff. The required disclaimers, policies, etc.

Just For Fun. Well.... it's just for fun.