External Links

Kaiser Permanente Resources
Advance Care Planning
Let your health wishes be known through an Advance Health Care Directive. You can go here to learn more about the form, get instructions and download the form.

If you are considering quitting smoking, we have some information and resources that can help you be successful here:
Smoking - Call It Quits!

Other websites and organizations that provide information and education on Eye Problems and Resources for the visually impaired:

American Foundation for the Blind

AMD.org Good resource for patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)

AMD Alliance Another good resource for patients with AMD

Coping with Sight Loss in Northern California Index of organizations in Northern California to help people with vision loss or blindness.

EyeMDLink An encyclopedia of eye conditions.

Glaucoma Research Foundation Latest information on Glaucoma and research

Kellogg Eye Center A resource on eye research

Medline Plus Numerous articles on Eye Diseases

National Eye Institute

Nutrition and the Eye Information on nutrition and eye health, including cataracts and macular degeneration

Organizations for Eye Health

Schepens Eye Institute Eye Disease Fact Sheets

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