{"id":1928,"date":"2019-08-23T14:23:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2019-08-23T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T14:23:15","slug":"national-assisted-living-week-begins-with-a-spark-of-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-orlando\/2019\/08\/23\/national-assisted-living-week-begins-with-a-spark-of-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"National Assisted Living Week begins with \u201cA Spark of Creativity\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/files\/2019\/08\/Guardian-Jacksonville-National-Assisted-Living-Week-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1930 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/files\/2019\/08\/Guardian-Jacksonville-National-Assisted-Living-Week-Logo-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guardian Pharmacy of Jacksonville will join tens of thousands of assisted living communities across the country kicking off the weeklong celebration of National Assisted Living Week on Sunday, September 8. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cA Spark of Creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finding a creative outlet can be beneficial to mind, body and spirit \u2013 especially among older adults, according to the National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL). National Assisted Living Week emphasizes the role caregivers play to help residents find that spark, so they can live life to the fullest.<a href=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/files\/2019\/03\/Guardian-Florida.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Spark of Creativity\u201d hopes to inspire assisted living residents to explore their creativity, whether through the arts or beyond. According to the American Art Therapy Association, art therapy can benefit older adults by improving cognitive and sensory-motor functions, fostering self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivating emotional resilience, enhancing social skills and improving problem solving skills.<\/p>\n<p>Guardian Pharmacy of Jacksonville has several projects and activities planned that highlight caregivers in the AL communities.\u00a0 \u201cIt is important for our team to understand and relate to caregivers in our partner communities,\u201d says Khristy McClelland, President of Guardian Pharmacy Jacksonville. \u201cWhen our team gains insight into the caregiver\u2019s role and their challenges, it helps us better understand the value of our services for caregivers, residents and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian Pharmacy of Jacksonville will join tens of thousands of assisted living communities across the country kicking off the weeklong celebration of National Assisted Living Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jacksonville","category-news","wpautop","category-23","category-4","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-orlando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-orlando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-orlando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-orlando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-orlando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-orlando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-orlando\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-orlando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-orlando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-orlando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}