{"id":3413,"date":"2016-05-02T10:25:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2016-05-02T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:25:34","slug":"older-americans-month-2016-5216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3413","title":{"rendered":"Older Americans Month 2016, 5\/2\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Celebrate Older Americans Month, 2016<\/h1>\n<p>May is Older Americans Month, and this year\u2019s OAM theme is \u201cBlaze a Trail.\u201d The Administration for Community Living will use May as an opportunity to raise awareness about important issues facing older adults. We will also highlight the ways that older Americans are advocating for themselves, their peers, and their communities. Join us in promoting activities, inclusion, and wellness for older Americans in your community. Materials are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTYwNDA3LjU3NDU3MjAxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE2MDQwNy41NzQ1NzIwMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2ODE2ODY0JmVtYWlsaWQ9cGdhbG9uc2t5QHJlc25hLm9yZyZ1c2VyaWQ9cGdhbG9uc2t5QHJlc25hLm9yZyZ0YXJnZXRpZD0mZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpdmFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;http:\/\/oam.acl.gov\/\">http:\/\/oam.acl.gov\/<\/a>. We\u2019re also interested in collecting the stories of older Americans who blaze trails themselves. Are you a trailblazer? Share your story! We want to hear how you innovate, reinvent, and make your mark in ways both big and small.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTYwNDA3LjU3NDU3MjAxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE2MDQwNy41NzQ1NzIwMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2ODE2ODY0JmVtYWlsaWQ9cGdhbG9uc2t5QHJlc25hLm9yZyZ1c2VyaWQ9cGdhbG9uc2t5QHJlc25hLm9yZyZ0YXJnZXRpZD0mZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpdmFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;http:\/\/oam.acl.gov\/submissions\/register.aspx\">http:\/\/oam.acl.gov\/submissions\/register.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3413\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate Older Americans Month, 2016 May is Older Americans Month, and this year\u2019s OAM theme is \u201cBlaze a Trail.\u201d The Administration for Community Living will use May as an opportunity to raise awareness about important issues facing older adults. We will also highlight the ways that older Americans are advocating for themselves, their peers, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,5,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}