{"id":5853,"date":"2022-05-30T06:37:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T04:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/30\/the-technical-tunes-getting-elderly-nigerians-up-and-digitally-dancing\/"},"modified":"2022-05-30T06:37:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T04:37:03","slug":"the-technical-tunes-getting-elderly-nigerians-up-and-digitally-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/30\/the-technical-tunes-getting-elderly-nigerians-up-and-digitally-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"The technical tunes getting elderly Nigerians up and digitally dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People living in a Lagos care home are enjoying a break in routine with a virtual mix of therapy and entertainment delivered via headset<\/p>\n<p>In the living room of the Regina Mundi care home in Lagos, 70-year-old Baba Raphael hauls himself up from his chair and puts on a virtual reality headset. For nine minutes, Raphael dances to the folksy tones of his favourite singer, the late Ayinla Omowura, while watching a music video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you enjoying it?\u201d one of the staff asks Raphael. He doesn\u2019t answer, oblivious as he sings along.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/30\/the-technical-tunes-getting-elderly-nigerians-up-and-digitally-dancing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/69b4f9c6a7a8598abde522a57622660827e6c40c\/0_393_4032_2419\/master\/4032.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c93c8aa7a693444d6287ceb745bd4e5d\" title=\"The technical tunes getting elderly Nigerians up and digitally dancing\" \/>People living in a Lagos care home are enjoying a break in routine with a virtual mix of therapy and entertainment delivered via headset<br \/>\nIn the living room of the Regina Mundi care home in Lagos, 70-year-old Baba Raphael hauls himself up from his chair and puts on a virtual reality headset. For nine minutes, Raphael dances to the folksy tones of his favourite singer, the late Ayinla Omowura, while watching a music video.<br \/>\n\u201cAre you enjoying it?\u201d one of the staff asks Raphael. He doesn\u2019t answer, oblivious as he sings along. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People living in a Lagos care home are enjoying a break in routine with a virtual mix of therapy and entertainment delivered via headset In the living room of the Regina Mundi care home in Lagos, 70-year-old Baba Raphael hauls himself up from his chair and puts on a virtual reality headset. For nine minutes, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/30\/the-technical-tunes-getting-elderly-nigerians-up-and-digitally-dancing\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The technical tunes getting elderly Nigerians up and digitally dancing<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}