{"id":1272,"date":"2011-12-24T00:28:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T00:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2011-12-24T00:28:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T00:28:35","slug":"senior-driving-tsunami-go-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"“senior (driving) tsunami;” Go Packers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our motor home got hit last week.\u00a0 It was parked on a quiet side street and an 82-year-old woman, in broad daylight (at a slow speed), swerved and hit the back corner.\u00a0 The next day (Are you ready for this?), the local Lima News<\/em> ran\u00a0a front page feature story about the growing problem of older people driving too long.\u00a0 The article noted that 10,000 people turn 65 every day in the U.S. now, a trend that will continue for the next: 19 years<\/em>.\u00a0 In fact, the article pointed out that in the next 10 years one in four drivers will be over 65.\u00a0 “We call it the senior tsunami that’s coming,” Elin Schold-Davis said.\u00a0 (She is the coordinator for the American Occupational Therapy Association’s Older Driver Inititiative.<\/strong>)\u00a0 For many seniors, driving is a form of independence.\u00a0 It is also increasingly representative of how much the extended family has geographically split apart in the country.\u00a0 That is, in the “old days” there were usually relatives nearby (or in the same house for that matter), who could drive an elderly relative wherever they needed to go.\u00a0 So… Do we need an “Older Driver Initiative,” or, well, do we need people starting to move back home?\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 I recently campaigned in several small towns in Northwest Ohio.\u00a0 In one of them, Elida, I spoke with one of the owners of the Green Bay Packers football team.\u00a0 Steve Hedrick, who used to live in Green Bay, owns one share of stock (purchased this year for $250) in the team.\u00a0 The Green Bay Packers are the only co-op in football.\u00a0 That is, all the other teams are owned by one owner, whereas the Packers are owned by a whole lot<\/em> of average fans, if you will.\u00a0 Green Bay is also the smallest market in football, but could well have the most enthusiastic fans.\u00a0 That’s what partial ownership does for you, and should be a paradigm used a lot more in businesses across the country.\u00a0 See our economic postion paper…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our motor home got hit last week.\u00a0 It was parked on a quiet side street and an 82-year-old woman, in broad daylight (at a slow speed), swerved and hit the back corner.\u00a0 The next day (Are you ready for this?), …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}