{"id":490,"date":"2021-02-12T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/?p=490"},"modified":"2021-02-12T12:45:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:45:34","slug":"afu-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/afu-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"AFU Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Age-Friendly University Principles<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"fullwidth\">To encourage the participation of older adults in all the core activities of the university, including educational and research programs<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>To promote personal and career development in the second half of life and to support those who wish to pursue second careers<\/li>\n<li>To recognize the range of educational needs of older adults (from those who were early school leavers through to those who wish to pursue Master\u2019s or PhD qualifications)<\/li>\n<li>To promote intergenerational learning to facilitate the reciprocal sharing of expertise between learners of all ages<\/li>\n<li>To widen access to online educational opportunities for older adults to ensure a diversity of routes to participation<\/li>\n<li>To ensure that the university\u2019s research agenda is informed by the needs of an aging society and to promote public discourse on how higher education can better respond to the varied interests and needs of older adults<\/li>\n<li>To increase the understanding of students of the longevity dividend and the increasing complexity and richness that aging brings to our society<\/li>\n<li>To enhance access for older adults to the university\u2019s range of health and wellness programs and its arts and cultural activities<\/li>\n<li>To engage actively with the university\u2019s own retired community<\/li>\n<li>To ensure regular dialogue with organizations representing the interests of the aging population<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age-Friendly University Principles To encourage the participation of older adults in all the core activities of the university, including educational and research programs To promote personal and career development in the second half of life and to support those who wish to pursue second careers To recognize the range of educational needs of older adults [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}