{"id":81,"date":"2017-12-30T15:07:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T15:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2017-12-30T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T15:40:17","slug":"caregiver-campaigns-in-the-news-johns-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/2017\/12\/30\/caregiver-campaigns-in-the-news-johns-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Caregiver campaigns in the news: John&#8217;s Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-86 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/12\/old-peoples-home-63617__340-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"189\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/johnscampaign.org.uk\/#\/about\">John\u2019s Campaign\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0was founded in 2014 by Nicci Gerrard and Julia Jones. It \u00a0campaigns \u00a0for the\u00a0rights of people with dementia to be supported by their family carers.<\/p>\n<p>Nicci Gerrard&#8217;s recent article\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/dec\/03\/johns-campaign-how-a-simple-plan-to-give-dignity-to-dementia-patients-changed-society\">Guardian<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/dec\/03\/johns-campaign-how-a-simple-plan-to-give-dignity-to-dementia-patients-changed-society\">&#8220;<em>How a simple plan to give dignity to dementia patients changed society<\/em>&#8220;<\/a> (3\/12\/17) talks about the origins of the campaign and what it has achieved. \u00a0The supporters of John&#8217;s \u00a0Campaign believe that carers should not just be allowed but should be welcomed in hospital settings. Since the campaign was founded, over 1000 institutions have pledged support\u00a0&#8211; but as the campaigners say &#8216;there is a lot yet to be done&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit the John&#8217;s Campaign&#8217;s website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/johnscampaign.org.uk\/#\/about\">John\u2019s Campaign<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John\u2019s Campaign\u00a0\u00a0was founded in 2014 by Nicci Gerrard and Julia Jones. It \u00a0campaigns \u00a0for the\u00a0rights of people with dementia to be supported by their family carers. Nicci Gerrard&#8217;s recent article\u00a0in the\u00a0Guardian\u00a0&#8220;How a simple plan to give dignity to dementia patients changed society&#8220; (3\/12\/17) talks about the origins of the campaign and what it has achieved. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/2017\/12\/30\/caregiver-campaigns-in-the-news-johns-campaign\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Caregiver campaigns in the news: John&#8217;s Campaign&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaigns","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}