{"id":31335,"date":"2022-07-12T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/the-medical-label-adult-failure-to-thrive-or-ftt-reeks-of-ageism#id32128"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:54:00","slug":"the-medical-label-adult-failure-to-thrive-or-ftt-reeks-of-ageism-undertreatment-and-medicines-tendency-to-blame-the-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/the-medical-label-adult-failure-to-thrive-or-ftt-reeks-of-ageism-undertreatment-and-medicines-tendency-to-blame-the-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"The medical label \u201cadult failure to thrive\u201d or \u201cFTT\u201d reeks of ageism, undertreatment, and medicine\u2019s tendency to blame the victim."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Among the contributing causes of death, was &ldquo;adult failure to thrive.&rdquo; His first reaction was to laugh. Those words made it sound like the illness had been his dad&rsquo;s fault. As if old age were a test his father had failed.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/07\/12\/adult-failure-to-thrive-label-medicine\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; STAT<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/the-medical-label-adult-failure-to-thrive-or-ftt-reeks-of-ageism\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Among the contributing causes of death, was &ldquo;adult failure to thrive.&rdquo; His first reaction was to laugh. Those words made it sound like the illness had been his dad&rsquo;s fault. As if old age were a test his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31336,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31335\/revisions\/31336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}