{"id":1095,"date":"2014-09-12T11:36:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2019-09-11T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T17:57:11","slug":"pgc-on-the-road-at-the-family-and-professional-caregiver-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/2014\/09\/12\/pgc-on-the-road-at-the-family-and-professional-caregiver-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"PGC on the Road at the Family and Professional Caregiver Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four in 10 U.S. adults are now caring for a sick or elderly family member as more people develop chronic illnesses and the population ages, a new study has found. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/20\/caregivers-adults-care-for-elderly-relatives-sandwich-generation_n_3469779.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huffington Post<\/a>). Yesterday, the Area Agency on Aging of West Central Texas hosted the Family and Professional Caregiver Symposium at Southern Hills Church of Christ. The event presented information, uplifting messages from professional speakers, and networking opportunities. Many thanks to Event Organizer Carrie Fritz and Keynote Speaker Kelly Moore, pictured at the Pruett Gerontology Booth at the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2014\/09\/caregiverphoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1096\" alt=\"Family and Professional Caregiver Symposium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2014\/09\/caregiverphoto-490x423.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2014\/09\/caregiverphoto-490x423.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2014\/09\/caregiverphoto-150x130.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2014\/09\/caregiverphoto-768x663.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2014\/09\/caregiverphoto-1080x933.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2014\/09\/caregiverphoto-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[subscribe2]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four in 10 U.S. adults are now caring for a sick or elderly family member as more people develop chronic illnesses and the population ages, a new study has found. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42240],"tags":[125046,125044,86832,125047,125045,161995,161650,86823,161651,161652],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived","tag-area-agency-on-aging-of-west-central-texas","tag-carrie-fritz","tag-charlie-pruett","tag-family-and-professional-caregiver-symposium","tag-kelly-moore","tag-older-adult-ministry-2","tag-pgc","tag-pruett-gerontology-center","tag-retiree-ministry","tag-senior-adult-ministry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001484,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1001484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}