{"id":10896,"date":"2016-09-21T12:41:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T17:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/gmr\/blog\/?p=10896"},"modified":"2017-05-04T14:16:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:16:25","slug":"happy-healthy-aging-month-have-some-nihseniorhealth-gov-bookmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/2016\/09\/happy-healthy-aging-month-have-some-nihseniorhealth-gov-bookmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Healthy Aging Month! Have some NIHSeniorHealth.gov bookmarks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nihseniorhealth.gov\/category\/visionandhearing.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10898 alignnone\" src=\"\/gmr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/Wisdomfortheages.jpg\" alt=\"Discover Wisdom for the Ages at NIHSeniorHealth.gov\" width=\"219\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nihseniorhealth.gov\/category\/visionandhearing.html\">NIHSeniorHealth.gov<\/a> might look like a simple website to the more internet-savvy of us, but it\u2019s the simplicity of this resource that helps older individuals navigate the site to find the quality health information in the unfamiliar digital age.<\/p>\n<p>The homepage features categories frequently accessed by seniors, including <a href=\"https:\/\/nihseniorhealth.gov\/category\/bonesandjoints.html\">bones and joints<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nihseniorhealth.gov\/category\/memoryandmentalhealth.html\">memory and mental health<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nihseniorhealth.gov\/category\/visionandhearing.html\">vision and hearing<\/a>. Videos are prominently featured on topics ranging\u00a0from <a href=\"https:\/\/nihseniorhealth.gov\/videolist.html#knee\">knee replacements<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/nihseniorhealth.gov\/videolist.html#copd\">COPD.<\/a> The highly customizable website \u2013 you can change text size and contrast \u2013 makes information not only easy to find, but easy to see with aging sight.<\/p>\n<p>NIH Senior Health even offers <a href=\"https:\/\/nihseniorhealth.gov\/toolkit\/toolkit.html\">training toolkits<\/a> to help librarians and caretakers teach older adults learn to use the Internet and search for answers online.<\/p>\n<p>The GMR has an abundance of NIHSeniorHealth.gov brochures squirreled away in our storage room, and since it\u2019s National Healthy Aging Month, we thought we\u2019d encourage our members to think about promoting this great resource to the elderly in your community. <strong>Please let us know if you\u2019d like some \u201cWisdom for the Ages\u201d brochures and we\u2019ll be sure to send some along.<\/strong> You can email us at <a href=\"mailto:gmr-lib@uiowa.edu\">gmr-lib@uiowa.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIHSeniorHealth.gov might look like a simple website to the more internet-savvy of us, but it\u2019s the simplicity of this resource that helps older individuals navigate the site to find the quality health information in the unfamiliar digital age. The homepage features categories frequently accessed by seniors, including bones and joints, memory and mental health, and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/2016\/09\/happy-healthy-aging-month-have-some-nihseniorhealth-gov-bookmarks\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9,11,12,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health","category-from-the-gmr","category-general","category-member-services","category-outreach","category-public-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NC9K-2PK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11918,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896\/revisions\/11918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}