{"id":91821,"date":"2018-12-21T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/?p=91821"},"modified":"2018-12-21T10:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T15:00:31","slug":"ross-medical-in-kokomo-adopts-grandparents-at-samaritan-caregivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/ross-medical-in-kokomo-adopts-grandparents-at-samaritan-caregivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Medical in Kokomo Adopts Grandparents at Samaritan Caregivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Kokomo-Indiana-Samaritan-Caregivers-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Medical Education Center Kokomo Indiana Samaritan Caregivers\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-91824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Kokomo-Indiana-Samaritan-Caregivers-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Kokomo-Indiana-Samaritan-Caregivers.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Although many in the younger generations have been raised on text messaging and email, there are still others that remember waiting by the mailbox for the mail to be delivered. Getting mail was something to be excited about. For the 50 grandparents that the <a href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/campus\/in\/kokomo.php\">Kokomo, Indiana Ross Medical Education Center campus<\/a> adopted from <a href=\"https:\/\/samaritancaregivers.org\/pages\/home\/1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Samaritan Caregivers<\/a>, they remember. That\u2019s why it is so meaningful and exciting for them when the snail mail keeps arriving.<\/p>\n<p>The staff, faculty, and students at the Kokomo campus were thrilled to \u201cadopt\u201d some grandparents at the local Samaritan Caregivers. Many of these residents have no family to visit them, or family members that aren\u2019t always nearby or able to visit consistently. To help to provide some love and encouragement, every month for the next year Ross students will be sending them special cards in the mail. \u201cWe hand make our cards with encouraging words for our newly adopted grandparents,\u201d shared Campus Director Shannon Spencer. The students are thrilled to get started, some of them expressing that they don\u2019t have their own grandparents to connect with, so this is especially exciting.<\/p>\n<p>Samaritan Caregivers is dedicated to providing individuals aged 65 and older free independent support. Some of the services that they provide include transportation, companionship, personal shopping, and more. \u201cWe have partnered with them to do many of these activities,\u201d said Shannon Spencer. \u201cIn the fall we helped clean up several seniors yards. We cut weeds, trim hedges, picked up trash, and even mowed some yards. Earlier this week one of the seniors saw a student working at an office that had helped clean up her yard in the fall, she called the campus and told me what a wonderful job she did taking care of her and would recommend our school to anyone. This made my day as much as it made hers!\u201d The campus looks forward to continuing their relationship with this great organization. \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although many in the younger generations have been raised on text messaging and email, there are still others that remember&hellip;<br \/><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/ross-medical-in-kokomo-adopts-grandparents-at-samaritan-caregivers\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}