{"id":291,"date":"2018-06-05T15:35:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T22:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2018-12-05T15:38:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:38:49","slug":"seniors-life-improves-dramatically-with-access-to-affordable-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/seniors-life-improves-dramatically-with-access-to-affordable-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniors\u2019 life improves dramatically with access to affordable transportation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transportation is the key to senior\u2019s health and well being. Check out these stats: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4.5 Million miss doctor\u2019s appointments<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8 Million over age 50 are affected by isolation, which is worse than some of the bad addictions in expediting your death. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local, state and federal governments <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/content\/dam\/aarp\/livable-communities\/learn\/transportation\/waiting-for-a-ride-transit-access-and-americas-aging-population-aarp.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have been coordinating<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for decades to resolve this issue but it is still major pain point that still need solving! There are several angles to this problem of providing access &amp; affordable transportation. A new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscbodycomputing.org\/research-studies\/2018\/6\/12\/429qibdxmz6c7fpvki8k2fsrc0ug7r\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">research project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between USC and Lyft, which is currently underway to provide free rides to diverse senior population in LA area proves what we expect. It definitely helps their wellbeing. Now the question is what kind of creative ways we can come up with to make this happen. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As always, know of anyone or any startup working on this, please let me know, I will update this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Image Credit: Thanks to BM10777 via <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pixabay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Transportation is the key to senior\u2019s health and well being. Check out these stats: 4.5 Million miss doctor\u2019s appointments 8 Million over age 50 are affected by isolation, which is worse than some of the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/seniors-life-improves-dramatically-with-access-to-affordable-transportation\/\" title=\"Seniors\u2019 life improves dramatically with access to affordable transportation!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-seniors","9":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}