{"id":25112,"date":"2006-05-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/05\/21\/age-concern\/"},"modified":"2006-05-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T01:00:00","slug":"age-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25112","title":{"rendered":"Age Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06052101.jpg\" \/><br \/>The headquarters of Oxfordshire Age concern moved to St Edmunds Lane in Abingdon in 2002. Age concern, Oxforshire, is a charity with 100 members of staff and over 400 volunteers who aim to make a difference in campaigning and caring for elderly people.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06052102.jpg\" \/><br \/>There aims are to help elderly people to:<\/p>\n<p>   * lead happy, active and fulfilled lives as independently as possible (which may mean helping them find gardening help or home shopping)<br \/>   * overcome the barriers which prevent them receiving whats rightfully theirs<br \/>   * be their advocates<br \/>   * communicate their needs in order to shape the policies and services of local and national agencies<br \/>   * care for them, if they need extra help, in safe, secure and welcoming environments<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06052103.jpg\" \/><br \/>This care home for the elderly in Ock Street is run by a charity called the Order of St John Care Trust.<\/p>\n<p>Providing a home for elderly people, especially when it comes to people who are no longer able to live independently, is a very difficult thing to do well. Yet our carers are often some of the least well paid workers.<\/p>\n<p>Age concern also also concerned for carers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headquarters of Oxfordshire Age concern moved to St Edmunds Lane in Abingdon in 2002. Age concern, Oxforshire, is a charity with 100 members of staff and over 400 volunteers who aim to make a difference in campaigning and caring for elderly people.There aims are to help elderly people to: * lead happy, active and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}