{"id":25285,"date":"2025-12-15T07:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25285"},"modified":"2025-12-15T07:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:14:53","slug":"the-magic-of-walking-with-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25285","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;magic&#8217; of walking with grief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Nancy Eve Cohen for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grief can make some people hole up indoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in Northampton, Massachusetts a walking bereavement group gathers outside once a week on warm days and chilly ones. Most join the group after a spouse has died, but some are there to remember a sibling, a parent or a child.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/12\/14\/nx-s1-5642731\/grief-death-walking-help\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/12\/14\/nx-s1-5642731\/grief-death-walking-help\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Nancy Eve Cohen for NPR) Grief can make some people hole up indoors. But in Northampton, Massachusetts a walking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,34],"tags":[1979,1978,94],"class_list":["post-25285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-end-of-life","tag-bereavement","tag-grief","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285","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=25285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25286,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285\/revisions\/25286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}