{"id":630,"date":"2012-04-13T14:27:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T20:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=630"},"modified":"2012-12-26T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T18:45:56","slug":"ford-meets-with-congressmen-on-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2012\/04\/13\/ford-meets-with-congressmen-on-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Meets with Congressmen on Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Ruth-with-Senators.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-631\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"Ruth-with-Senators\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Ruth-with-Senators-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Ruth-with-Senators-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Ruth-with-Senators.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Dr. Ruth Ford recently attended the Aging in America Conference 2012\u00a0sponsored by ASA and NCOA in Washington, D.C. The political arena in\u00a0Washington, D.C. was most vibrant with Supreme Court Hearings that week for the Affordable Health Care Act debate and the appropriation budget hearings for the Older American Act.<\/p>\n<p>Ford met with Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander and Sen. Bob Corker as well as Keith Studdard, legislative director from Rep. Marsha Blackburn\u2019s office, to discuss aging issues. She also attended a Capital Hill Advocacy Day to hear from several senators presenting on aging issues. The conference addressed many key issues with the Baby Boomer generation turning 65 and impacting wellness and healthcare in our society. Ford received a Belmont travel grant to help with funding her trip.<\/p>\n<p>Ford has brought learning materials and class lecture content back for the doctoral of occupational therapy students. She is exploring a Maymester class for 2013 where students, faculty, and staff can learn about successful aging and ways to overcome barriers to aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ruth Ford recently attended the Aging in America Conference 2012\u00a0sponsored by ASA and NCOA in Washington, D.C. The political arena in\u00a0Washington, D.C. was most vibrant with Supreme Court Hearings that week for the Affordable Health Care Act debate and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2012\/04\/13\/ford-meets-with-congressmen-on-aging\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-occupational-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}