{"id":850,"date":"2016-12-16T13:53:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T13:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/omdg.ie\/?p=850"},"modified":"2016-12-16T14:11:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:11:14","slug":"alones-christmas-campaign-show-an-older-person-you-care-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2016\/12\/16\/alones-christmas-campaign-show-an-older-person-you-care-this-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"ALONE&#8217;s Christmas Campaign: Show an older person you care this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0of November, ALONE launched their Christmas campaign highlighting the isolation and loneliness of older people during the Christmas period. At the launch of the campaign, ALONE\u2019s Ambassador, Anne Doyle, called on members of the public to reach out to older members of their community who may be experiencing loneliness or isolation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/omdg.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ALONE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-851 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/omdg.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ALONE-300x85.jpg\" alt=\"alone\" width=\"300\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ALONE-300x85.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ALONE.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Sean Moynihan, CEO of ALONE commented, \u201cWe find that calls for support dramatically increase over the winter period and loneliness is one of the main issues that people come to us for support with. Christmas can be a particularly isolating time for older people who have no loved ones to share it with. We can all be guilty of getting caught up in the rush of Christmas and reuniting with friends and family, but for many older people they will spend Christmas ALONE, in silence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">To view ALONE&#8217;s comprehensive Christmas Newsletter with full details of the campaign click <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.verticalresponse.com\/1690323\/ff2d206af2\/547924903\/6560db3082\/\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 23rd\u00a0of November, ALONE launched their Christmas campaign highlighting the isolation and loneliness of older people during the Christmas period. At the launch of the campaign, ALONE\u2019s Ambassador, Anne Doyle, called on members of the public to reach out to older members of their community who may be experiencing loneliness or isolation. Sean Moynihan, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2016\/12\/16\/alones-christmas-campaign-show-an-older-person-you-care-this-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ALONE&#8217;s Christmas Campaign: Show an older person you care this Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}