{"id":1243,"date":"2026-09-01T06:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/2026\/09\/01\/1-october-is-international-day-of-older-persons-2\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T06:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:10:34","slug":"1-october-is-international-day-of-older-persons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/2026\/09\/01\/1-october-is-international-day-of-older-persons-2\/","title":{"rendered":"1 October is International Day of Older Persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wprt-container\">\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">International Day of Older Persons aims to raise awareness about the contributions of older people and the challenges they face in an ageing world, as well as encouraging societies to create supportive environments to enable older people to live fulfilling and active lives.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Living longer opens the door to endless possibilities, not just for older people, but for their families and society as a whole. Extra years mean extra chances to learn something new, start a fresh career, or finally dive into a long-lost passion. Older people enrich their families and communities in countless ways. But the key that unlocks these opportunities is the same for everyone: good health.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Physiotherapists play a key role in supporting older people to maintain and improve their balance, strength, mobility and independence. There is a focus on preventing falls, managing pain, and rehabilitation after injury or surgery.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">PEDro has a number of resources to help you stay up to date with the latest evidence for older people:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Subscribe to the \u2018gerontology\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/pedro.org.au\/english\/browse\/evidence-in-your-inbox\/\"><em>Evidence in your inbox<\/em><\/a> feed<\/li>\n<li class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/pedro.org.au\/english\/learn\/journal-club\/\">PEDro World-Wide Journal Club videos<\/a> on fall prevention and older people<\/li>\n<li class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Read studies included in <a href=\"https:\/\/pedro.org.au\/english\/learn\/top-25-trials\/\">PEDro\u2019s Top Trials<\/a> about older people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/pedro.org.au\/english\/1-october-is-international-day-of-older-persons-2\/\">1 October is International Day of Older Persons<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/pedro.org.au\/\">PEDro<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Day of Older Persons aims to raise awareness about the contributions of older people and the challenges they face in an ageing world, as well as encouraging societies to create supportive environments to enable older people to live fulfilling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}