{"id":1430,"date":"2022-01-19T15:56:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?page_id=1430"},"modified":"2023-07-24T18:18:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T22:18:41","slug":"seniors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?page_id=1430","title":{"rendered":"Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1543-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1432 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1543-1-scaled-e1642625793370-1024x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1543-1-scaled-e1642625793370-1024x466.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1543-1-scaled-e1642625793370-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1543-1-scaled-e1642625793370-768x349.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1543-1-scaled-e1642625793370-1536x698.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1543-1-scaled-e1642625793370-2048x931.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1543-1-scaled-e1642625793370-100x45.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1543-1-scaled-e1642625793370-150x68.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been working with Seniors since 1998 and am currently providing spiritual care at Port Hope Extendicare, a long-term care facility and Seniors&#8217; home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_X6D9w7cHLA\">Here is a delegation I presented in June 2023 to Port Hope&#8217;s Town Council about reforming Long-Term Care.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.com\/news-story\/10223500-independent-friends-group-to-host-seniors-for- sidewalks-march-in-port-hope\/\">worked with Seniors for Sidewalks<\/a> to advocate for better accessibility for Senior citizens in Port Hope. We recently had a victory with the Town Council and are excited to now have a beautiful sidewalk and pathway along Rose Glen Road. Residents of Extendicare now have somewhere to go beyond the parking lot of their building!<\/p>\n<p>Here is an article I wrote for <em>Presence<\/em>, the journal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdicompanions.org\/\">Spiritual Directors International<\/a> (an organization of which I am a member) about what it is like to provide spiritual accompaniment for elderly people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Celia_Presence_Article.pdf\">Celia_Presence_Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lois_book-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1443 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lois_book-2-217x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lois_book-2-217x300.jpeg 217w, https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lois_book-2-740x1024.jpeg 740w, https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lois_book-2-768x1063.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lois_book-2-1110x1536.jpeg 1110w, https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lois_book-2-72x100.jpeg 72w, https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lois_book-2-108x150.jpeg 108w, https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lois_book-2.jpeg 1112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working with Seniors since 1998 and am currently providing spiritual care at Port Hope Extendicare, a long-term care facility and Seniors&#8217; home. Here is a delegation I presented in June 2023 to Port Hope&#8217;s Town Council about reforming Long-Term Care. I also worked with Seniors for Sidewalks to advocate for better accessibility&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1430","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1430\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}