WHERE as Gateway:

In Los Angeles, Chinese language adults form a significant portion of the older population. They are living longer and faced with challenges of transportation, chronic disease management, emotional and geographic distance from their children, and a health care system that is operates in English.

The Internet has the potential to provide health related information to support decisions and to locate resources. Information in Chinese from sources in the USA is scarce, fragmented, and difficult to locate. At USC, an interdisciplinary team assembled to provide links to health information on the Internet targeted to seniors whose language preference is other than English.

Our site is a gateway to other health related resources for older adults living in the United States. We are happy to add links recommended by users. Finding credible, quality health information is an international challenge. Several organizations have developed lists of what makes a good health information site. We have posted links to those groups under Quality Criteria. Each group has its fans, but no one set of criteria has been universally adopted.

Disclosure and Reservations:

We found very few websites from US sources that had Chinese language options. So, we have provided links to some from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. However, we were not able to translate each Chinese site. We relied on experts from China and Hong Kong to direct us to potential sites.

Anyone around the world can create a website and post health information. Users are cautioned to review all sites using established, formal quality criteria, such as the HON code or other Quality Criteria.