{"id":13969,"date":"2023-06-15T17:36:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T17:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imph.org\/?p=13969"},"modified":"2023-06-15T17:36:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T17:36:23","slug":"new-report-aims-to-combat-social-isolation-loneliness-among-scs-growing-senior-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imph.org\/new-report-aims-to-combat-social-isolation-loneliness-among-scs-growing-senior-population\/","title":{"rendered":"New report aims to combat social isolation, loneliness among SC\u2019s growing senior population"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A report released on Tuesday aims to combat social isolation and loneliness among seniors, which research has shown can have significant negative impacts on mental and physical health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report, spearheaded by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/imph-social-isolation-2023-accessible.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health (IMPH)<\/a>&nbsp;and the South Carolina Department on Aging (SCDOA), comes after a task force of more than 40 stakeholders from across state agencies studied the issue for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe report is meant to be a call to action, it is not something to sit on a shelf,\u201d Maya Pack, the Executive Director of the IMPH, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full story by Nick Neville <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wistv.com\/2023\/06\/14\/new-report-aims-combat-social-isolation-loneliness-among-scs-growing-senior-population\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report released on Tuesday aims to combat social isolation and loneliness among seniors, which research has shown can have significant negative impacts on mental and physical health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"work-type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13970,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13969\/revisions\/13970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13969"},{"taxonomy":"work-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work-type?post=13969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}