{"id":9023,"date":"2025-10-03T15:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/?p=9023"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:30:39","slug":"pcau-joins-stakeholders-to-celebrate-international-day-of-older-persons-in-jinja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/pcau-joins-stakeholders-to-celebrate-international-day-of-older-persons-in-jinja\/","title":{"rendered":"PCAU Joins Stakeholders to Celebrate International Day of Older Persons in Jinja"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, October 1, 2025, PCAU joined different stakeholders in Jinja to commemorate the International Day of Older Persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We believe every older person deserves to age with dignity, respect, and compassionate care. Palliative care plays a vital role in ensuring comfort, easing pain, and supporting well-being in later years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitors at our stall in Jinja learned more about how palliative care supports older persons and how, together, we can create a caring community for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This participation reflects PCAU\u2019s continued advocacy for integrating palliative care into services for older persons and ensuring they receive the dignity and support they deserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:43.15030%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"2048\" data-id=\"9026\" data-link=\"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/pcau-joins-he-stakeholders-to-celebrate-older-persons-in-jinja\/pcau-joins-international-day-of-older-persons-in-jinja\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PCAU-joins-International-Day-of-Older-persons-in-Jinja-819x1024.png\" data-width=\"1638\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pcauganda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PCAU-joins-International-Day-of-Older-persons-in-Jinja-819x1024.png?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open image 1 of 3 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:31.94054%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1080\" data-id=\"9025\" data-link=\"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/pcau-joins-he-stakeholders-to-celebrate-older-persons-in-jinja\/pcau-celebrates-international-day-of-older-persons-in-jinja\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PCAU-Celebrates-International-Day-of-Older-persons-in-Jinja-606x1024.jpg\" data-width=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pcauganda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PCAU-Celebrates-International-Day-of-Older-persons-in-Jinja-606x1024.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open image 2 of 3 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:24.90916%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1080\" data-id=\"9034\" data-link=\"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/pcau-joins-he-stakeholders-to-celebrate-older-persons-in-jinja\/pcau-joins-international-day-of-older-persons-in-uganda-2\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PCAU-joins-International-Day-of-Older-persons-in-Uganda-1-472x1024.jpg\" data-width=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pcauganda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PCAU-joins-International-Day-of-Older-persons-in-Uganda-1-472x1024.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open image 3 of 3 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, October 1, 2025, PCAU joined different stakeholders in Jinja to commemorate the International Day of Older Persons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcauganda.org\/new-progress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}