{"id":1242,"date":"2021-10-28T03:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T07:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humankindpodcast.org\/pc\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2021-11-30T15:56:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:56:39","slug":"aging-in-community-pt-2-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humankindpodcast.org\/pc\/aging-in-community-pt-2-participants\/","title":{"rendered":"Aging in Community, pt. 2:  Participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within a decade, America will be looking different. In addition to other demographic changes, 70 million Baby Boomers are now entering their retirement years. For the first time in our history, there will be more older adults than children.<\/p>\n<p>This huge societal change will affect how families provide eldercare, how older Americans access transportation, and whether people can age in their own homes among neighbors they know \u2014 and avoid nursing facilities, where about 30% of Covid-19 deaths occurred.<\/p>\n<p>These shifts will accelerate a trend that began three decades ago with passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act: local communities are attempting to become more age-friendly. What changes will this mean for how families relate, how our streets and sidewalks are designed, how we use technology?<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0<strong>Aging in Community,<\/strong>\u00a0a special project from Humankind public radio, you\u2019ll hear stories of transition and dignity \u2014 and meet people who are showing the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within a decade, America will be looking different. In addition to other demographic changes, 70 million Baby Boomers are now entering their retirement years. For the first time in our history, there will be more older adults than children. This huge societal change will affect how families provide eldercare, how older Americans access transportation, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 10:43:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humankindpodcast.org\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humankindpodcast.org\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humankindpodcast.org\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humankindpodcast.org\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humankindpodcast.org\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.humankindpodcast.org\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/www.humankindpodcast.org\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humankindpodcast.org\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humankindpodcast.org\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humankindpodcast.org\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humankindpodcast.org\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}