{"id":406,"date":"2016-05-07T17:55:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T17:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.johnwhittingdale.co.uk\/?p=406"},"modified":"2021-08-19T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:41:58","slug":"visit-to-age-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Age Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale met Andrew Gardner, Chief Executive of Essex AgeUK, at their offices in Widford Hall, Chelmsford to discuss the work of the charity in the county.<\/p>\n<p>Age UK offers a number of services to those aged over 50 in Essex including Home Help, Toenail Cutting, Advocacy, &nbsp;Sitting to provide respite for carers and Dementia Connections to help people living with dementia. Last year, Essex Age UK helped over 60,000 people in the county.<\/p>\n<p>Its Information and Advice service is a free and confidential advice service for anyone aged 50 or over, their family, friends, professionals or carers. Through a team of professional advisers, they can provide up to date information and advice on a range of topics including welfare benefits, social care, bereavement and legal queries.<\/p>\n<p>Essex AgeUK can be contacted on 01245 346106 or through the website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ageuk.org.uk\/essex\/how-we-can-help-you\/\">http:\/\/www.ageuk.org.uk\/essex\/how-we-can-help-you\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1953\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale met Andrew Gardner, Chief Executive of Essex AgeUK, at their offices in Widford Hall, Chelmsford to discuss the work of the charity in the county. Age UK offers a number of services to those aged over 50 in Essex including Home Help, Toenail Cutting, Advocacy, &nbsp;Sitting to provide respite for carers and Dementia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}