{"id":18581,"date":"2021-08-02T10:34:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18581"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:34:41","slug":"restoring-a-sense-of-belonging-the-unsung-importance-of-casual-relationships-for-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18581","title":{"rendered":"Restoring a Sense of Belonging: The Unsung Importance of Casual Relationships for Older Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>In May, Vincent Keenan traveled from Chicago to Charlottesville, Virginia, for a wedding \u2014 his first trip out of town since the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi there!\u201d he called out to customers at a gas station where he\u2019d stopped on his way to the airport. \u201cHow\u2019s your day going?\u201d he said he asked the Transportation Security Administration agent who checked his ID. \u201cIsn\u2019t this wonderful?\u201d he exclaimed to guests at the wedding, most of whom were strangers.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/casual-relationships-vital-older-adults-sense-of-belonging-post-pandemic\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) In May, Vincent Keenan traveled from Chicago to Charlottesville, Virginia, for a wedding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18582,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18581\/revisions\/18582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}