{"id":309,"date":"2010-07-04T23:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T13:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=309"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:02:20","slug":"ward-grandparents-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/ward-grandparents-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward grandparents drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Monday July 5 &#8211; 774 ABC Drive program with Libbi Gorr<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Judy Christy is The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital&#8217;s last remaining Ward Grandparent.\u00a0Three days a week she hops onto a tram in rain, hail or shine,\u00a0to spend\u00a0up to four hours a day\u00a0with patients whose parents cannot be by their bedside.<\/p>\n<p>Judy is a retired teacher and has a great rapport with many of the kids she looks after. If it&#8217;s an older child, she&#8217;ll play cards or board games with them. If her patient is in a wheelchair, she&#8217;ll take them to the garden or the Starlight Room. And if she is looking after a baby, that baby gets plenty of cuddles.<\/p>\n<p>Four-year-old Yuli is one of the children she looks after and the two have formed a special bond.<\/p>\n<p>But as much as Judy loves her job, she would also love to have more people join her. The RCH is now on a drive to recruit more people to the Ward Grandparents program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday July 5 &#8211; 774 ABC Drive program with Libbi Gorr Judy Christy is The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital&#8217;s last remaining Ward Grandparent.\u00a0Three days a week she hops onto a tram in rain, hail or shine,\u00a0to spend\u00a0up to four hours a day\u00a0with patients whose parents cannot be by their bedside. Judy is a retired teacher and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/ward-grandparents-drive\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}