{"id":136,"date":"2023-03-27T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T22:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aging-center\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2023-06-08T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:40:42","slug":"careers-in-ageing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aging-center\/careers-in-ageing\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers in Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia is an aging state. According to US Census Data (Census.gov, 2020), 20.5% of West Virginia\u2019s population is 65 years of age or older, compared with 16% of the US population. A similar trend is seen across the rural counties of Appalachia. Significant poverty and disability reduce available financial resources and feelings of burden related to extended family care can take a toll on healthy aging.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"two-column\">\n<li><strong>Senior fitness\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Community health programs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Community planning<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Social work<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other career possibilities in the field of aging include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"two-column\">\n<li><strong>Estate and financial planning<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Elder law<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Volunteer management<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Human resources<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Housing and home modification<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia is an aging state. According to US Census Data (Census.gov, 2020), 20.5% of West Virginia\u2019s population is 65 years of age or older, compared with 16% of the US population. A similar trend is seen across the rural counties of Appalachia. Significant poverty and disability reduce available financial resources and feelings of burden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":993,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-136","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aging-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aging-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aging-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aging-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aging-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aging-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aging-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aging-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}