{"id":208448,"date":"2025-12-24T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208448\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:57:07","slug":"people-urged-to-check-in-on-older-neighbours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208448\/","title":{"rendered":"People urged to check in on older neighbours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national charity, Alone, is appealing to people to check in on their older neighbours over Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation says Ireland&#8217;s ageing population is driving unprecedented demand for its services and supports.<\/p>\n<p>Alone&#8217;s staff have made more than 20,000 calls to older people ahead of Christmas to provide whatever supports they need.<\/p>\n<p>Its volunteers will deliver close to 2,000 dinners around the country on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Alone says demand for its services continues to grow annually, particularly among the 30% of older people in Ireland who live alone.<\/p>\n<p>Alone Chief Executive Se\u00e1n Moynihan said that with many services shut down or not available over the Christmas, it can be a hazardous time for older people.<\/p>\n<p>He is appealing to people to check in on their neighbours, reach out, offer support, and not to assume someone else has done it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The national charity, Alone, is appealing to people to check in on their older neighbours over Christmas. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-208448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}