{"id":62861,"date":"2024-01-24T17:09:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallsea.local\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=62861"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:02:50","slug":"m-t-connolly","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/event\/m-t-connolly\/","title":{"rendered":"MT Connolly, Page Ulrey, and Leesa Manion with Amy Radil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"129097:0\"><strong><em>Tens of millions of Americans are living longer than ever before, posing new challenges for older adults, their caregivers, communities, and society\u2019s systems.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"129097:0\">MT Connolly\u2019s new book,\u00a0<em>The Measure of Our Age<\/em>, profiles the work of pioneers who address those challenges, including one of the first communities to prosecute elder abuse in King County. This problem victimizes one in ten older Americans.<\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"129097:0\">KUOW law and justice reporter\u00a0<strong>Amy Radil<\/strong>\u00a0will moderate a discussion with\u00a0<strong>Page Ulrey<\/strong>, elder abuse prosecutor for King County since 2001,\u00a0<strong>Leesa Manion<\/strong>, now King County\u2019s elected prosecutor, who launched the elder abuse unit, and\u00a0<strong>MT Connolly<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<em>The Measure of Our Age<\/em>, which, among other things, tells the story of these hard cases, the difficult ethical issues they raise, and the justice system\u2019s evolving approach to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"129097:0\"><strong><em>Tens of millions of Americans are living longer than ever before, posing new challenges for older adults, their caregivers, communities, and society\u2019s systems.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"129097:0\">MT Connolly\u2019s new book,\u00a0<em>The Measure of Our Age<\/em>, profiles the work of pioneers who address those challenges, including one of the first communities to prosecute elder abuse in King County. This problem victimizes one in ten older Americans.<\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"129097:0\">KUOW law and justice reporter\u00a0<strong>Amy Radil<\/strong>\u00a0will moderate a discussion with\u00a0<strong>Page Ulrey<\/strong>, elder abuse prosecutor for King County since 2001,\u00a0<strong>Leesa Manion<\/strong>, now King County\u2019s elected prosecutor, who launched the elder abuse unit, and\u00a0<strong>MT Connolly<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<em>The Measure of Our Age<\/em>, which, among other things, tells the story of these hard cases, the difficult ethical issues they raise, and the justice system\u2019s evolving approach to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62863,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[55],"class_list":["post-62861","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-civics","cat_civics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/62861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/62861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62861"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=62861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}