{"id":2,"date":"2008-12-10T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T03:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.agingwatch.com\/\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2016-01-10T01:19:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T06:19:16","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.agingwatch.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Aging Watch<\/strong><\/span> seeks to advance the protection, promotion and participation of elders in American society.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Protection<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0means ensuring that the rights of older people are respected, that the social promises\u00a0made to them are honored, and that their needs and interests are included at all levels of public planning and decision-making. <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Promotion<\/em><\/span><\/strong> refers to clarifying and expanding the social understanding of who older people are and of what they are capable of doing. <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Participation<\/em> <\/span><\/strong>refers to organizing\u00a0and amplifying the voices, perspectives, and contributions of elders in order to enrich and elevate our nation&#8217;s civil discourse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jwalker@agingwatch.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jessica Walker<\/span><\/a> is the founder of Aging Watch. She is a public policy expert, advocate and author of several influential reports on\u00a0social isolation among older adults, elder poverty, geriatric mental health and the creation of age-friendly communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aging Watch seeks to advance the protection, promotion and participation of elders in American society. Protection\u00a0means ensuring that the rights of older people are respected, that the social promises\u00a0made to them are honored, and that their needs and interests are included at all levels of public planning and decision-making. Promotion refers to clarifying and expanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agingwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agingwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agingwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agingwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agingwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.agingwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.agingwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agingwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}