{"id":2619,"date":"2018-11-30T10:28:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2019-09-11T10:16:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:16:34","slug":"holiday-activities-for-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/2018\/11\/30\/holiday-activities-for-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Activities for Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The holidays can be a fun time of year for everyone. Seniors can participate in many activities in their local communities and even in the comfort of their home. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here are a few holiday ideas to participate in the community:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Go and see the city or town\u2019s Christmas tree and parade. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walk or drive around neighborhoods with Christmas lights and decorations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Go to the theater and see a Christmas movie.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Invite friends to go to a coffee shop and visit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visit the mall to look at all of the Christmas decorations. Shop for your friends and family while you are there.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Visit a nursing home and take the residents a Christmas gift. They will enjoy your presence and generosity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Holiday ideas for staying in:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Make a Christmas wreath to put on your front door or to give to someone. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Decorate a gingerbread house with your friends or grandchildren.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Invite your friends or family to watch a Christmas movie.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Host a Christmas party.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listen to holiday music on your TV, radio, computer, or phone.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Decorate your house in Christmas decorations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pick out Christmas cards to send to friends and family.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bake Christmas cookies. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays can be a fun time of year for everyone. Seniors can participate in many activities in their local communities and even in the comfort of their home. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15482,"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":[200982],"tags":[152412,2270,190070,190072,190071],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caregiver-resources","tag-aging","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-activities","tag-holiday-activities","tag-senior-adults"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","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\/15482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}