{"id":12243,"date":"2017-09-14T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/gmr\/?p=12243"},"modified":"2017-09-18T18:41:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T18:41:01","slug":"funding-award-for-public-library-community-conversations-with-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/2017\/09\/funding-award-for-public-library-community-conversations-with-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding Award for Public Library: Community Conversations with Seniors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am excited to announce that the <a href=\"https:\/\/wpl.lib.in.us\/\">Westchester Public Library<\/a> in Indiana was been awarded funding for\u00a0Community Conversations with Seniors!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong>: the Westchester Public Library has a history of working successfully with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alz.org\/\">Alzheimer&#8217;s Association<\/a> and other local health organizations to host health programs. Their Community Conversations series began when they showed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/film\/being-mortal\/\">Being Mortal<\/a> film and convened\u00a0a panel of experts for discussion after the viewing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Description:<\/strong> The GMR is funding the showing and discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hisneighborphil.com\/index.html\">His Neighbor, Phil<\/a>. The discussion will include local health professionals and experts and a representative from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alzheimersspeaks.com\/\">Alzheimer&#8217;s Speaks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alz.org\/alzheimers_disease_what_is_alzheimers.asp\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12271\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/2017\/09\/funding-award-for-public-library-community-conversations-with-seniors\/alzheimers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alzheimers.jpg?fit=935%2C809&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"935,809\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Newman, Bobbi L&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1505296921&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"alzheimers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alzheimers.jpg?fit=300%2C260&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alzheimers.jpg?fit=600%2C519&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12271\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.nnlm.gov\/gmr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alzheimers.jpg?resize=600%2C519&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"image of facts on Alzheimer's Disease\" width=\"600\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alzheimers.jpg?w=935&amp;ssl=1 935w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alzheimers.jpg?resize=300%2C260&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alzheimers.jpg?resize=768%2C665&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am excited to announce that the Westchester Public Library in Indiana was been awarded funding for\u00a0Community Conversations with Seniors! Background: the Westchester Public Library has a history of working successfully with the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association and other local health organizations to host health programs. Their Community Conversations series began when they showed the Being Mortal&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/2017\/09\/funding-award-for-public-library-community-conversations-with-seniors\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,185],"tags":[180,181,184,183,182,179],"class_list":["post-12243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-public-libraries","tag-alzheimers-association","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-being-mortal","tag-his-neighbor-phil","tag-public-library-funding","tag-westchester-public-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NC9K-3bt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243","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\/348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12275,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions\/12275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}