{"id":3015,"date":"2022-05-24T13:05:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T17:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:36:44","slug":"bsw-student-laura-thiessens-research-on-naturally-occurring-retirement-communities-featured-in-ottawa-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/2022\/bsw-student-laura-thiessens-research-on-naturally-occurring-retirement-communities-featured-in-ottawa-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"BSW Student Laura Thiessen&#8217;s Research on &#8220;Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities&#8221; Featured in Ottawa Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Laura Thiessen, a 4<sup>th<\/sup> year BSW student in the School of Social Work, is conducting research through Carleton&#8217;s I-CUREUS program. Her research explores two residential buildings in Bay Ward in Ottawa that are Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs). She is hoping that her research will help these buildings&#8217; residents to identify their needs and understand what would help them to &#8216;age in place&#8217; for longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about NORCs and Laura&#8217;s research here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/ontario-election\/kavanagh-naturally-occurring-retirement-communities-deserve-a-boost-in-ontario\">Kavanagh: &#8216;Naturally occurring retirement communities&#8217; deserve support | Ottawa Citizen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Thiessen, a 4th year BSW student in the School of Social Work, is conducting research through Carleton&#8217;s I-CUREUS program. Her research explores two residential buildings in Bay Ward in Ottawa that are Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs). She is hoping that her research will help these buildings&#8217; residents to identify their needs and understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"article-print"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}