{"id":1332,"date":"2011-05-06T07:48:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hearthsidehome.wpengine.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2011-05-06T07:48:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:48:53","slug":"friends-family-walks-visit-library-tips-hearthside-home-care-home-senior-care-greensboro-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/2011\/05\/06\/friends-family-walks-visit-library-tips-hearthside-home-care-home-senior-care-greensboro-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends and Family &#8211; Take Walks, Visit Library &#8211; Tips from Hearthside Home Care &#8211; In Home Senior Care Greensboro NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri;font-size: medium\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1337\" style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2011\/05\/library-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1337\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1337\" title=\"Visit Your Local Library\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2011\/05\/library-books-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"Visit and Volunteer at Your Local Library\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2011\/05\/library-books-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2011\/05\/library-books-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2011\/05\/library-books.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends and Family Tips from Hearthside Home Care Greensboro NC - Visit Your Local Library<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In this mobile society, we often find our friends and family members living far away, making it harder to stay connected. But with a little effort, you can\u00a0fortify your social network by reaching out to others. <strong><em>Here are\u00a0tips 3 and 4\u00a0: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;font-size: small\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial black,avant garde\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;font-size: small\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial black,avant garde\">Take walks through your neighborhood \u2013 great way to meet your neighbors. <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008000\"><em><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black,avant garde\">Visit your local library \u2013 volunteer to read to children or help with literacy program<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000\"><em><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black,avant garde;font-size: small\"><span>There are benefits to having good connections to family and friends, such as\u00a0a<\/span><strong>decrease in the likelihood of depression, and\u00a0a decrease in elevated blood pressure during stressful events. Frequently, our in-home clients and their families tell us that activities such as taking walks in their neighborhoods, and helping children learn to read or volunteering in their library&#8217;s literacy program helps them to better function and maintain a positive outlook.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;font-size: medium\">In case you missed our first tip, here it is again for you: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;font-size: medium\"><em><strong>Here\u2019s the first tip: <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;font-size: medium\"><strong><em>1.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em> Join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Hearthside\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and share your life and photos with loved ones<\/em><em>. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;font-size: medium\"><em>Stay tuned for more tips and benefits to staying connected to family and friends, and for a complete list, press the link on the top right &#8220;With a little help from our\u00a0family and friends&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 In this mobile society, we often find our friends and family members living far away, making it harder to stay connected. But with a little effort, you can\u00a0fortify your social network by reaching out to others. Here are\u00a0tips 3 and 4\u00a0: \u00a0 Take walks through your neighborhood \u2013 great&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}