{"id":12541,"date":"2021-12-08T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T19:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/human-development\/?p=12541"},"modified":"2021-12-08T14:47:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T19:47:40","slug":"think-you-know-what-college-aged-means-think-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/human-development\/2021\/12\/08\/think-you-know-what-college-aged-means-think-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Think You Know What \u2018College-Aged\u2019 Means? Think Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"type-intro fullwidth\">Finding ways to include older adults in the Rhody community of teachers and learners has earned URI a national honor and enriched the lives of students, faculty, and community members.<\/p>\n<p>By Diane M. Sterrett<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Census Bureau estimates 3 in 10 Americans will be over the age of 55 by 2030, representing an enormous opportunity to innovate and problem-solve. From training caregivers to dispelling ageism myths and offering lifelong education, URI is responding to the educational, social, and health needs of older adults with a comprehensive range of programs and partnerships.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed oembed-uri-edu\" style=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/fall-2021\/think-you-know-what-college-aged-means-think-again\/\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"aC3yqRk9Eu\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/fall-2021\/think-you-know-what-college-aged-means-think-again\/\">Think You Know What &#8216;College-Aged&#8217; Means? Think Again.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Think You Know What &#8216;College-Aged&#8217; Means? Think Again.&#8221; &#8212; University of Rhode Island Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/fall-2021\/think-you-know-what-college-aged-means-think-again\/embed\/#?secret=aC3yqRk9Eu\" data-secret=\"aC3yqRk9Eu\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding ways to include older adults in the Rhody community of teachers and learners has earned URI a national honor and enriched the lives of students, faculty, and community members. By Diane M. Sterrett The U.S. Census Bureau estimates 3 in 10 Americans will be over the age of 55 by 2030, representing an enormous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"featured_media":12281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12542,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541\/revisions\/12542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}