{"id":1720,"date":"2021-03-01T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:29:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:29:19","slug":"delivering-care-packages-to-older-adults-at-marcus-garvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/2021\/03\/01\/delivering-care-packages-to-older-adults-at-marcus-garvey\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivering Care Packages to Older Adults at Marcus Garvey"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1722\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG-2936-e1613506979429-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"400\" class=\"wp-image-1722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG-2936-e1613506979429-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG-2936-e1613506979429-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG-2936-e1613506979429-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG-2936-e1613506979429.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First and second year medical students making the care packages for residents of Marcus Garvey. From left to right: Ryan Wolfe (MS2), Sarah Golden (MS1), Yilan Jiangliu (MS1), &amp; Hannah Tang (MS1). Not pictured: Jennifer Strauss (MS1)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The American Geriatric Society (AGS) Student Interest Group and Bridging Gaps in Care\u00a0<span>delivered 168 care packages to residents of Marcus Garvey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The care packages included a note from members translated into English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole, a mask, a bottle of hand sanitizer, a small notebook that says &#8220;Everything is Going to Be Alright&#8221; on the front, and a pen. A few medical students helped translate the note into Spanish and Haitian Creole to include most of the residents of Marcus Garvey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They have been planning this for quite some time in the midst of the pandemic and we<\/span>\u00a0are glad that they were able to reach out to our older adults in the local area and let them know that we are thinking of them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1723\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG-2933-scaled-e1613507144475-636x468.jpg\" alt=\"First &amp; Second Year Medical Students creating care packages for older adults.\" width=\"512\" height=\"377\" class=\"wp-image-1723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG-2933-scaled-e1613507144475-636x468.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG-2933-scaled-e1613507144475-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG-2933-scaled-e1613507144475-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG-2933-scaled-e1613507144475-1536x1131.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG-2933-scaled-e1613507144475.jpg 1894w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First &amp; Second Year Medical Students creating care packages for older adults.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Geriatric Society (AGS) Student Interest Group and Bridging Gaps in Care\u00a0delivered 168 care packages to residents of Marcus Garvey.\u00a0 The care packages included a note from members translated into English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole, a mask, a bottle of hand sanitizer, a small notebook that says &#8220;Everything is Going to Be Alright&#8221; on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14007,"featured_media":1722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}