{"id":17541,"date":"2021-06-16T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=17541"},"modified":"2021-05-27T11:47:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T15:47:28","slug":"veggie-food-options-in-senior-independent-living-assisted-living-nursing-home-and-other-senior-facilities-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/16\/veggie-food-options-in-senior-independent-living-assisted-living-nursing-home-and-other-senior-facilities-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Veggie Food Options in Senior Independent Living, Assisted Living, Nursing Home, and Other Senior Facilities in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pcoA4gXKi-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pcoA4gXKi-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pcoA4gXKi.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More and more senior citizens\nin the United States are vegan or eat vegan food several times a week. Some\nseniors may eventually choose to move into a senior independent or assisted\nliving establishment. Other seniors may need to move into a nursing home or\nother type of senior facility. How do you know if the facility you\u2019re\nconsidering offers vegan options?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vegetarian Resource Group\nmaintains an online guide to veggie-friendly senior facilities. Some offer\nvegan options on a regular basis and some offer vegetarian food and upon\nrequest will provide vegan food. With demand from seniors, more and more\nestablishments will eventually add vegan meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s VRG\u2019s online guide: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/seniors\/senior_vegan.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/seniors\/senior_vegan.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you know of any other\nsenior facilities that should be added to this guide, please send the\ninformation to <a href=\"mailto:vrg@vrg.org\">vrg@vrg.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more senior citizens in the United States are vegan or eat vegan food several times a week. Some seniors may eventually choose to move into a senior independent or assisted living establishment. Other seniors may need to move into a nursing home or other type of senior facility. How do you know if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17543,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17541\/revisions\/17543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}