{"id":3757,"date":"2012-06-04T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T14:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:51:01","slug":"ai-jen-poo-preparing-for-a-changing-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3757","title":{"rendered":"Ai-jen Poo: Preparing for a Changing America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/\">The Nation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uODLlODq72g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the years ahead, the country&#8217;s aging population will grow to become the largest in US history, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caringacrossgenerations.org\/\">Caring Across Generations<\/a> Co-Director Ai-Jen Poo. As that happens, the demand for long-term care will skyrocket. &#8220;Right now, if you&#8217;re aging or if you have a disability, your choices are really limited,&#8221; says Poo. &#8220;You can go and live in a nursing home or perhaps an assisted living facility, but we want to create more choices so that people can stay in their homes and in their communities, live independently in a context that they know, for as long as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Nation In the years ahead, the country&#8217;s aging population will grow to become the largest in US history, says Caring Across Generations Co-Director Ai-Jen Poo. As that happens, the demand for long-term care will skyrocket. &#8220;Right now, if you&#8217;re aging or if you have a disability, your choices are really limited,&#8221; says Poo. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[1104,1105,823,341],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}