{"id":206564,"date":"2025-06-23T02:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206564\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T02:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:16:10","slug":"germanys-silbertaler-project-tackles-senior-loneliness-and-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206564\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Silbertaler project tackles senior loneliness and poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/posties\/reading-levels?module=inline_posties&amp;pgtype=article_posties?module=inline_posties&amp;pgtype=article_posties\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Difficulty: Summiteer (Level 3)<\/a><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A project in western Germany helps seniors battle often-overlooked challenges \u2013 not just old-age poverty, but also loneliness.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe thought: nobody is interested in old people,\u201d said Griseldis Ellis, who runs a foundation to combat old age poverty in Germany.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cBut the response has been overwhelming. People are much more open, empathetic and interested than they are often given credit for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She and her wife, Christine Kienhofer, have been running Silbertaler, a project in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, since 2021.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They deliver fresh fruit, vegetables and other foods to senior citizens living at home.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the start, the two women collected donations in kind. They soon realised that the need was greater than they had thought.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The city of Speyer helped to establish contact with those in need. Now, the foundation says it is financed by donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Difficulty: Summiteer (Level 3) A project in western Germany helps seniors battle often-overlooked challenges \u2013 not just old-age&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[521,51,1395,1700,2000,299,1824,3749,388,12,391,47141,93,53,978,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-206564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-lifestyle","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-opinion","19":"tag-south-china-morning-post","20":"tag-sport","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}