{"id":16928,"date":"2014-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2014\/04\/01\/study-highlights-need-to-help-socially-isolated-elderly-folk\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T23:56:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T15:56:44","slug":"study-highlights-need-to-help-socially-isolated-elderly-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2014\/04\/01\/study-highlights-need-to-help-socially-isolated-elderly-folk\/","title":{"rendered":"Study highlights need to help &#8216;socially isolated&#8217; elderly folk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the elderly who live alone can hardly care for their health, some researchers\u00a0claim that the society should be responsible for taking care of them. On 31 March 2014, A\/P Straughan from the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore pointed out that &#8220;When you have a strong pool of volunteers to step up and fill the gap, then the whole\u00a0community benefits&#8221;. More information can be found through the link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/breaking-news\/singapore\/story\/study-highlights-need-help-socially-isolated-elderly-folk-20140401\">http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/breaking-news\/singapore\/story\/study-highlights-need-help-socially-isolated-elderly-folk-20140401<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the elderly who live alone can hardly care for their health, some researchers\u00a0claim that the society should be responsible for taking care of them. On 31 March 2014, A\/P Straughan from the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore pointed out that &#8220;When you have a strong pool of volunteers to step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26062,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16928\/revisions\/26062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}