{"id":932,"date":"2012-05-08T09:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T13:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=932"},"modified":"2012-05-08T09:47:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T13:47:53","slug":"seniors-gold-card-582012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"Seniors Gold Card, 5\/8\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Baltimore City Health Department\u2019s Office of Aging &amp; CARE Services recently\u00a0announced new resources available to seniors and persons with disabilities. The announcement coincided with the start of Older Americans Month, a celebration of the nation\u2019s commitment to recognizing the contributions and achievements of older Americans. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Gold Card is a form seniors or people with disabilities can fill out that lists key medical information an emergency responder would need to know in a medical emergency. The form can be displayed in a home and includes a wallet size card for an individual to carry. The Health Department has printed and distributed more than 60,000 copies of the Gold Card to dozens of sites across Baltimore city, including senior centers, libraries, health centers, Social Security offices, and senior high-rise residential buildings. To get a free Gold Card, call 410-396-CARE (2273).<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Gold Card, you can read the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimorehealth.org\/press\/2012_05_01_Older_Americans_Month_PR.pdf\"> press release <\/a>or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimorehealth.org\">www.baltimorehealth.org<\/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=932\" 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>Baltimore City Health Department\u2019s Office of Aging &amp; CARE Services recently\u00a0announced new resources available to seniors and persons with disabilities. The announcement coincided with the start of Older Americans Month, a celebration of the nation\u2019s commitment to recognizing the contributions and achievements of older Americans. The Gold Card is a form seniors or people with [&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":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932"}],"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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}