{"id":263,"date":"2012-12-05T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T20:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/?p=263"},"modified":"2019-09-11T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:24:12","slug":"honors-colloquium-the-social-isolation-of-the-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/2012\/12\/05\/honors-colloquium-the-social-isolation-of-the-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors Colloquium: The Social Isolation of the Elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Honors students partnered with Meals on Wheels Plus of Abilene to study elderly who live alone.\u00a0 Social workers on staff at Meals on Wheels Plus identified clients who were willing to visit with two students about their lives, why they live alone, are they lonely and what is their outlook on life.\u00a0 Students learned much about the difference between \u2018alone\u2019 and \u2018lonely\u2019 and how much attitudes and life choices affect successful aging.\u00a0 They were able to present ideas on how the community could better include local seniors in activities and meaningful relationships.\u00a0\u00a0 Every student mentioned transportation issues as a significant problem; some pointed to our culture of independence and focus on youth.\u00a0 All supported ideas that encourage a more inter-generational approach that respects the needs and aspirations of all ages.\u00a0 Their final reports were presented to Meals on Wheels Plus at a special dinner hosted by Pruett Gerontology Center.\u00a0 Well done!<\/p>\n

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Honors students partnered with Meals on Wheels Plus of Abilene to study elderly who live alone.\u00a0 Social workers on staff at Meals on Wheels Plus identified clients who were willing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6591,"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":[86832,161995,161650,161651,161652],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived","tag-charlie-pruett","tag-older-adult-ministry-2","tag-pgc","tag-retiree-ministry","tag-senior-adult-ministry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","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\/6591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}